Split PDF into separate pages

How to split a PDF into separate pages step by step

The job runs in the split tool, which shows a thumbnail of every page and lets you choose the output shape. For one file per page, pick the separate PDFs option and the tool does the rest.

Step 1: Open the document

Open the split tool and drop the PDF in. The page grid loads with a thumbnail of every page, so you can see what you are working with.

Step 2: Choose separate PDFs output

Select the option to write one file per page. The tool prepares to write each page as its own document, named after the source with a page number appended.

Step 3: Split and download the zip

Press split. The tool writes every page as a separate PDF, re-opens each one, and compares its text and page count against the source. If every page matches, it packs them into a single zip archive and hands it back. If any page does not match, the whole run fails rather than shipping an archive with a broken file in it.

How the split files come back to you

As a zip. One PDF per page, named after the source with a page number appended, like report-page-01.pdf. The number is padded to at least two digits, and to three when the document runs past ninety nine pages, so the files sort correctly in any file manager.

A zip rather than a hundred separate downloads is deliberate. Browsers throttle and then block repeated downloads, and a hundred files arriving one at a time is a worse outcome than one archive you open once. The zip keeps everything together and lets you extract only the pages you actually need.

Every split page is checked before you get it

After the pages are written, each one is re-opened and read back. The page and its text are compared against the page it came from, and the whole run fails if any single page does not match. You never get an archive where one file is quietly empty.

That check is the reason splitting is safe on a document you cannot easily reproduce. A split that silently dropped the text layer on page forty would be invisible until someone tried to search it, and by then the original might be gone. Reading every page back is the only way to know, and pdfviz does that on every run, in the browser, without sending anything anywhere.

Real-world use cases for splitting a PDF into single pages

Filing invoices from a monthly statement is the most common reason people split this way. A supplier sends one PDF with thirty invoices and each one needs its own file for the accounting folder. Split once and every invoice becomes a separate document, ready to rename and file.

Sorting a scanned stack into individual records is another case. A batch scan of receipts, forms, or delivery notes arrives as one long file where each sheet belongs somewhere else. Split the stack, keep the pages you need as single files, and sort them into the right folders by the padded page number in each filename.

Sending one page without the rest of the document happens all the time. A contract where only the signature page goes to the client, or a report where only page three matters to one colleague, is easier to send as a single page than as a whole file. The split tool handles all of these, and the verification step means each page is a complete, readable document.

Splitting some pages rather than all of them

If you only want a range, select the pages you want first and keep those, then split. The tool shows a thumbnail of every page, so choosing is a matter of looking rather than counting. The extract pages page covers that case directly.

The split page covers the other shapes: splitting at a fixed interval, or cutting a document in half. The split guide walks through picking the right one. If you went the other way and need to put pages back together, the merge tool is the answer.