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title: "Split PDF — Extract or Remove Pages Privately | Compress Pro"
description: "Split a PDF in your browser — keep only the pages you need or delete the ones you don’t, with ranges like 1-3,7. The file never leaves your device. Free."
canonical: https://compress-pro.com/split-pdf
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# Split PDF files.

> Extract or remove PDF pages locally — nothing is uploaded.

Pull exact pages out of a PDF — or cut pages from it — entirely in your browser. Type a range like 1-3,7,12- and choose whether to keep or remove those pages; the rest assemble into a new document with **nothing re-encoded and nothing uploaded**.

**No uploads · No ads · Free & open source.**

## How it works

1. Drop files anywhere on the page, click to browse, or paste with Ctrl/⌘ + V.
2. Pick a quality or preset — or set an exact target size and let the tool find it.
3. Compress, compare before/after, and download — individually or as a ZIP.

## Page ranges by example

| Range | Result with Keep |
| --- | --- |
| 5 | Just page five |
| 1-3,7 | Pages one to three, plus page seven |
| 12- | Page twelve to the end |
| 1-3,12- | Everything except pages four to eleven |

## Extract vs remove

Keep mode answers “I need these pages”: pull the signed page out of a contract, or the one relevant chapter from a manual. Remove mode answers “these pages shouldn’t be here”: strip a blank scan, an outdated appendix or a page with someone else’s data. Both produce a fresh PDF and leave the original untouched.

## Splitting big scans

Scanned bundles are the classic case — a hundred-page scan where you need pages 34–41. Extraction is instant even on huge files because pages are copied, not rendered. If the extracted part is still heavy, run it through [Compress PDF](https://compress-pro.com/compress-pdf) afterwards; scans shrink dramatically there.

## Frequently asked questions

### How do page ranges work?

Comma-separate pages and ranges: 1-3,7,12- means pages one to three, page seven, and everything from twelve to the end. Open-ended ranges like 12- save you from knowing the page count.

### What’s the difference between Keep and Remove?

Keep extracts your selection into the new file; Remove deletes the selection and keeps everything else. The same range means opposite things, so double-check the toggle before running.

### Does splitting reduce quality?

No — pages are copied as-is, without re-encoding. Only the pages you excluded are gone. Compress the result separately if you also want it smaller.

### Is it private?

Yes. The document never leaves your browser — nothing is uploaded, and the server only delivers this page. That makes it safe for contracts, invoices, medical records — anything you would not email to a stranger. Want proof? Run one file through, switch your connection off, and run another — it still works.

## Related tools

- [Merge PDF files](https://compress-pro.com/merge-pdf)
- [Compress PDFs](https://compress-pro.com/compress-pdf)
- [Convert PDF to JPG](https://compress-pro.com/pdf-to-jpg)

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