Aug 05, 2026 · 4 min read · Guide

Splitting a PDF by Page Range, Entirely on Your Device

A 40-page PDF where you need pages 12 to 18 is a file waiting to be split. Instead of sending the whole document - including the 33 pages nobody asked about - to a cloud service, this tool cuts it locally.

How to use it

1. Open the Split tool and choose your PDF.
2. Type a page range: 1-3, 7, 12-14 takes pages one through three, seven, and twelve through fourteen.
3. Click Process Now and download the new PDF containing exactly those pages.

Try it now: open the Split PDF tool - no account, no upload, free.

What happens under the hood

The range string is parsed into a list of page indices, then those pages are copied object-for-object into a new document. The original file is never modified - you always get a fresh PDF, and the source stays untouched on your disk.

Tips for better results

• Ranges can overlap and repeat: 1, 1, 2 genuinely produces page one twice - occasionally useful for forms.
• Out-of-range numbers are ignored rather than failing, so 1-999 is a lazy but effective “everything”.

Privacy, in one sentence

Your file is read into your browser's memory, processed there by JavaScript and WebAssembly, and handed back to you as a download - no server ever sees a byte of it. Close the tab and nothing remains.