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Using Split Document, you can break one or more multipage documents into a set of smaller ones according to the criteria you define. After splitting, the source PDF remains unchanged in all cases.

To split up large PDFs

  1. Open a multipage PDF file you want to break into different parts.

  2. Choose Document> Page > Split and the Split Document dialog box appears.

  3. Under Source Document, specify a multipage document you want to split:

    • Current Document. This option is available as long as the currently opened document contains more than one page.

    • Selected Document. Click the Browse… button to specify a multipage document as the source document.

  1. Under Split Mode, select one of the split modes and change the settings as needed. Click OK.

  2. Click Output Options … to set target folder and file labeling. When finished, click OK.

Note: the unit of splitting is page, so the source document must be a multipage document.

Split Modes

Splitting generates one or more output files that cover the whole content of the source document.

In some cases, the resulting PDF files will be named “Segment 001 of <source document name>”, Segment 002 of < source document name>. If the source document is extracted by text, bookmark or text therein, the resulting PDF files will be named after the text or the name of the bookmark you specify.

 

Split pages

  • Split by file size: ___MB. It splits your PDF document into parts with no more than a specified file size. The value limit should be between 0.5 and 50 MB.

  • Split by parity of pages. Split the source document by odd and even pages. The two output files will be named Odd segment of [source document name] and Even segment of [source document name].

  • Split by blank page. Splitting creates a new document whenever a blank page is encountered. Every range of pages between blank pages will be saved into an individual PDF document.

  • Split by pages: ___ pages as a document. Define how many pages each resulting document contains. Each output file contains an equal number of pages, except for the last file that may contain fewer pages. For example, if you enter 2 for a 5-page document, it will be split into 3 files with the first 2 file containing 2 pages and the last file containing only 1 page.

  • Split by pages containing text. Any page containing the text (case sensitive) you specify will become the beginning of a new PDF document. In other words, a new file begins whenever the next occurrence of the entered text string is found. The first segment always starts with Page 1 even if it does not contain any specified text or word string. Comments and signatures are not checked for text match.

  • Split by pages. The document is split based on the page numbers you specify (e.g. 2; 4; 6). The first segment always starts with Page 1. For example, in the case of splitting a 6-page PDF document, entering 2 and 4 will split the document into three parts with the first segment starting with Page 1, the second segment starting with Page 2, and the last segment starting with Page 4. You are warned if you enter invalid page numbers.

  • Split by bookmark. Split the source document at the page where the bookmark you specify is found. The first segment always starts with Page 1.

  • Split by bookmark level. Split the source document at the page where the specified bookmark level is found. The bookmark splitting is available only when the document contains bookmarks.

 

Extract pages

The output file usually covers only part of the source document that still stays unchanged after extraction. 

  • Extract by pages or page ranges. The parts of the document are extracted based on user-defined pages or ranges that cannot overlap. The output files will be named “Segment 001 of [source document name]”, “Segment 002 of [source document name]”, etc. The warning message is given if the pages and ranges you enter overlap.

  • Extract pages containing text. Only the pages containing the word or text string you specify (case sensitive) will be extracted. Comments and signatures are not checked for text match. The extracted pages are saved in a single file named by the entered text pattern.

  • Extract by bookmark. All pages associated with a certain bookmark name will be extracted. This is case-sensitive. The output files will be as follows, e.g. “[bookmark name]_001”, “[bookmark name]_002”, etc.

  • Extract by bookmark level. All bookmark sections under the specified bookmark level will be extracted into a PDF document and named using the bookmark title. The resulting files are placed in automatically created folders that mirror the bookmark hierarchy. A generated HTML index file provides you with links of the extracted pages for easy file navigation. For example, you enter 2 to extract sections organized under second-level bookmarks. If there are two second-level bookmarks in the source document, two subfolders will be created and contain the files associated with the second-level bookmarks. The main folder is named by the original file.

 

Numbering options

The numbering options allow you to control how the output files will be named. You can specify the numbering of the resulting segments as needed. For example, if you would like to split a 6-page document into a number equal to a multiple of 2, you enter 2 in the [__ pages as a document] field. The source document will be split into three output files with 2 pages per file.

Then click the Numbering Options button. In the Numbering Options dialog box, define how the resulting documents will be named and then click OK. For example, if you enter 1 in the Start Number field and enter 2 in the Increment of Numbering field, the resulting PDF files will be named “Segment 001 of [source document name]”, Segment 003 of [source document name], and “Segment 005 of [source document name]”. Click OK.

 

Output options

Click Output Options for selecting a folder for the split result files and filename preferences. Specify the options as needed, and then click OK.

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