Easy to Use PDF Split and Merge Tools

Most people commonly use Pdf files. Sometimes there would be a requirement to split the pdf file. For example, you may have a document where you need only the first two pages of the document. So you need to split the document to take out the first two pages. Since PDF files cannot be directly edited, you would need a splitter tool to do this. Splitting a PDF file is quite easy; let’s see how this is done.

Pdf split method

There are various tools available online that allow you to split a pdf file and break it up into multiple files based on the page numbers. You can split the pdf file into two halves. You can also split it based on a range of pages. For example, you can specify Page 12 to 25 or even split it as pages 10 to 20, 30 to 35 and 45 to 47.

If you have a very large pdf file, you may find it difficult to send it over email. In such a case, you can split it into multiple files based on file size. This would create a number of files depending on the file size you specify.

Which are the 10 best PDF split and merge tools?

There are many splitter tools online. We take a look at the top ten tools.

Sejda

This tool provides four options – split all pages into individual files, extract some pages into different files, split pages based on a range, or split into a specific number of files. There is a limitation of 50 pages and 50 MB for the pdf file you are trying to split.

Chrome PDF Editor

Did you know you could use the Chrome browser to split Pdf files? Yes, it is easy to split pdf files. All you need to do is open the file and select print. Change the destination from the printer to ‘pdf.' Select the page range you want to split and click on print. The selected pages would be separated out and sent to another pdf file.

Smallpdf

You have two options here. One is to separate out each page and make it as a separate file. The other is to select the pages you want and it would be extracted into another file. You can even preview pages before selection and rotate it. However, you can only work with two files an hour.

iLove PDF

You can split all the pages into separate files or can select a range of pages.  It works very fast and you can save it to your system or Google Drive or Dropbox account.

PDFsam

There are multiple options given here to split files page-wise, based on a range, or every ‘n’ pages. You can also split by size and even by the pages, you have bookmarked.

PDFelement

This is a professional tool and you can preview and rotate pages before splitting, Multiple options are available to split, however, trial version inserts a watermark.

PDFsplitmerge

PDFsplitmerge is an easy to use PDF split and gives you clear page preview to help you split the files. It is free only for a trial period.

A-pdf Split

It allows multiple options to split a pdf file, including specifying multiple ranges. It is not free and has only a trial version for free.

Pdf to Png

This splitter converts pdf files to png files, in case you need this option. It only offers splitting individual pages into separate images.

Adobe Acrobat

Acrobat itself has many options to split pdf files. It has multiple options and many features that help you effectively split pdf files. However, this is a paid software.