

If you use the Chrome browser, you can easily use it as a PDF separator to save just one page (or a range of pages) to a PDF file. Pages split away from the PDF are always merged into one PDF file (to make multiple PDFs, you have to "print" several times, each time choosing a different page). Just choose the size you want each piece to be, and the program will split the PDF into as many pieces as necessary to ensure that each file is under the size you've specified. Some splitters even let you merge your split page ranges-for this, the PDF would just contain pages 10 through 225, with 1–9 and 51–222 removed.Ī few of the better PDF splitters can also cut the document by size, a perfect solution if yours is too large to upload to a website, send over email, etc. In this scenario, you'd split into two separate PDFs, both containing only the pages you chose to extract. Maybe your file has 225 pages, but you only want pages 10–50 and 223–225. For example, you could split a 100-page document so that you have two separate PDFs, each with 50 pages.Īnother way these separators work is by letting you pick a range of pages. When extracting specific pages from the PDF, you're often given the option to split in half so that one PDF holds the first half of the pages and the other has the second half. Most of the picks from our list below give you a few options: "explode" the document into multiple files where each page of the original becomes its own PDF, extract one (or more) specific pages, or delete particular parts of the PDF so you're left with just the portion of the original that you want. In fact, you might even already have a program installed on your computer that can do the job. There are several online and offline options that work in just a few clicks.

This might sound like a complicated procedure, but it's actually very easy to do.

You might do this if you only want one or two (or more) pages from the document and the rest to be removed, or if the PDF is too large for whatever you want it for. A PDF splitter is used to splice a PDF file into pieces.
