Split
A range of pages pulled out of a document as a file of its own, with everything you did not name simply left out rather than changed in place. You write the range the way you would write it for a printer, and the original is untouched — it is still there, unchanged, when the job finishes. Works on PDFs up to twenty-five megabytes, one file per run, priced from the size of the file you send.
Console
split-pdfNothing is charged for uploading, and nothing runs until you press Run. Sign in to load a file and get an estimate first.
Drop your PDF in, or choose it from disk. Uploading processes nothing and charges nothing — the file is read far enough to size it and count its pages, and never far enough to open one.
Type the pages to keep. Single pages and ranges both work, separated by commas, and the pages you keep come back in the order the document had them in. The estimate is shown before you commit to running it.
Run and download. The pages you named come back as one PDF, the document you uploaded is left exactly as it was, and a run that fails costs you nothing.
Questions
How do I write the range?
The way you would write it on a print dialog. A single number keeps one page, a hyphen keeps everything between two numbers inclusive, and commas join as many of those as you need — so pages one, four and nine through twelve are written as 1,4,9-12. Pages are counted from one, a page named twice is still kept once, and the pages come back in the order the document had them in.
What if I name a page the document does not have?
It is ignored, and the pages that do exist are still pulled out — the same thing a printer does with the same instruction. A range that names no page the document has fails the job, and a failed job costs nothing.
Does the file get smaller?
Usually, by about what the dropped pages were carrying. The content, images and fonts that only the dropped pages used come out with them, so a three-page extract from a two-hundred-page document can come back close to the size of a three-page document rather than close to the whole two hundred. What the dropped pages shared with the ones you kept stays, because the pages you kept still need it — a font used throughout the document, or a logo on every page, is not something dropping a page can take out, and a document built that way shrinks less. Either way, the price here is based on the file you send rather than on the one you get back.
Can I get every page as a separate file?
Not yet. Every run here hands back exactly one file, so a page-per-file split is a different job from pulling out a range: every page would have to come back inside one file rather than as one download per page. It is on the list.
Is the original changed?
No. Every tool here writes a new file and leaves the one you uploaded exactly as it was. The upload is deleted twenty-four hours later either way, and the result is kept for thirty days.
What does it cost?
About one and a third credits per megabyte, plus a small flat amount per file. A two megabyte document costs three credits and the largest file this tool takes costs thirty-four. How many pages you keep does not change the price, because the whole file is read either way.
How is this different from deleting pages?
It is the same question asked from the other end. Split keeps what you name and Delete pages removes what you name, so which one is less typing depends entirely on where the pages you care about sit in the document.