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4 Ways you can split your PDF file:

Option 1

Divide a large PDF file into smaller files of a given file-size limit

You may need to split a large PDF file into smaller pieces where each smaller file fits within a given file-size limit.
Split-a-PDF is the only free online tool which allows you to do this without executing a grueling series of trial and error attempts at different page ranges.

1) Select Split based on a file size limit...

Split based on a file size limit

2) Specify the maximum file size of the resulting split documents

Split based on a file size limit

3) Click Split - The large PDF will be split into multiple smaller files, each not exceeding the specified limit.

Option 2

Interactively view the PDF file and click and preview which page ranges to extract

Using the intuitive visual PDF previewer, click and select the page range(s) to extract into smaller individual PDF files.

1) Select Click and preview the pages you want to extract...

Click and preview the pages you want to extract

2) Use the document previewer to select the pages to extract

Click and select the page range(s) to extract into smaller individual PDF files

In the left Navigate Pane, scroll up and down to preview the pages and click to select the start and ending pages. All pages highlighted in red on the left will be split-out into a separate PDF document.

Tip: Alternatively, rather than scrolling, you can manually enter the page ranges in the bottom right input boxes.

3) Click Split to extract. The process is almost instantaneous.

Option 3

Extract each page from a PDF into individual files

or

Option 4

Extract every X pages from a PDF into individual files

Extract each page from a PDF into its own file, or repeating sets of pages (e.g. split each 5 pages into individual files).

1) Select Extract a fixed number of pages per file...

Extract a fixed number of pages per file

2) Enter the number of pages per file into which to split the PDF document

Enter the number of pages per file into which to split the PDF document

Enter 1...
...to extract each page into a separate file,
or
Enter (e.g. 2)...
...to extract each 2 pages into individual files, each 2 pages in length,
and so on...

3) Click Split to extract. The process is almost instantaneous.

Download Options:

Split a PDF file into multiple pieces, download them one-by-one, or all at once

Enter the number of pages per file into which to split the PDF document