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Split a PDF Into Separate Pages

Every page as its own file, in one go.

Every tool runs entirely in your browser. Your files are never uploaded to a server.

Every page is copied into its own document, so a twelve-page PDF becomes twelve files. This is different from extracting a range, which produces one file containing the pages you named.

How to use Split PDF Into Pages

  1. Add your PDF. Drag it in or click to browse.
  2. Choose the numbering. Zero padding keeps the files in order in a folder.
  3. Download them all. One file per page, named after the original.

About splitting a PDF into separate pages

Bursting a PDF means producing one document per page, and it is worth distinguishing from extraction because the two are usually offered under the same word. Extracting takes a range you name and puts it in a single new file; bursting takes no selection at all and returns as many files as there are pages. The second is what people want after scanning a stack of separate documents through a feeder, which is the single most common reason this operation exists. Each page is copied as an object into a fresh container rather than re-rendered, which is why the operation is lossless. A scan comes out at exactly the resolution it went in, embedded text stays selectable and searchable, and fonts travel with the page. Nothing about the visual content changes. What cannot survive is anything describing the document as a whole. Internal links pointing from one page to another have no target once the pages are separate files, and bookmarks refer to a structure that no longer exists. That is inherent to the operation rather than a limitation of any particular tool. The numbering detail is small and saves real annoyance. File managers sort names as text, so an unpadded set puts page 10 immediately after page 1, and a folder of twenty pages ends up in an order that looks random. Padding to a fixed width makes alphabetical order and page order the same thing.

Frequently asked questions

How is this different from Split PDF?
Split extracts a range you name into one new document — pages 3 to 7 as a single file. This bursts the whole thing, producing one file per page with no selection to make. They are different jobs and people search for them differently.
Why does zero padding matter?
Because file managers sort names as text, so page 10 lands between page 1 and page 2. Padding to a fixed width — 01, 02, 10, 12 — makes the alphabetical order match the page order, which matters as soon as a document has ten or more pages.
Does splitting lose quality?
No. Each page is copied wholesale into a new document rather than re-rendered, so text stays selectable, scans stay exactly as sharp as they were, and embedded fonts come along. Nothing is rasterised at any point.
What happens to bookmarks and links?
Document-level structures do not survive being separated, because they refer to a document that no longer exists as a whole. Internal links between pages break by necessity, and bookmarks are dropped. Page content itself is unaffected.
What is this actually useful for?
Scanned batches, mostly — a stack of receipts, invoices or forms fed through a document feeder arrives as one long PDF and needs to be one file per item. It is also how you prepare pages for reordering or for uploading individually.

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