Break apart bulk PDFs into individual pages or custom ranges with zero data loss. Integrate in one API call. Process thousands of files daily without touching a UI.
Splitting PDFs should be simple. At scale, it's messy. Free online tools handle one file at a time and require manual uploads—not suitable for production workflows. Desktop software still requires human interaction and doesn't integrate with automation. Building it yourself means wrestling with PDF parsing libraries that are temperamental with binary formats, edge cases, and corrupted files. You're debugging this at 3am instead of shipping features.
You need programmatic, reliable PDF splitting that handles edge cases and scales. Our API does exactly that. Extract specific pages or page ranges with full fidelity—every font, color, image, and link preserved. Process 50-page PDFs in 2 seconds. Handle edge cases: blank pages, rotated pages, embedded media. Build automation workflows: trigger splits based on conditions in your app, extract and validate documents, route them programmatically through document management systems and workflow tools. No data loss. No corruption. Just reliable splitting at scale.
Insurance company received claim packets with 10-30 pages each. Employees manually separated pages into intake forms, supporting docs, and medical records. One developer integrated our split API into their intake system. Now: PDF uploads trigger automatic splitting into predefined page ranges, documents are auto-routed to correct departments. Saved 15 hours/week. Processing 500 claim packets/month without additional staff.
Contract management platform let customers upload bulk PDFs (multi-party agreements). They needed to split these into individual contracts, validate them, and distribute to relevant parties. Built a workflow: upload → auto-split → validation → route to signatories. Now handles 2K documents/month. Clients praise the automation. Revenue increased because the product solved a real workflow pain.
Print company received orders with mixed content: one customer's job might have pages 1-5, another's pages 6-12 in the same PDF. Manual separation was error-prone. Implemented our API to auto-split by page ranges. Eliminated sorting errors, reduced fulfillment time by 40%, processed 8K pages/day reliably.
Two approaches: Extract specific pages (pass [1, 3, 5] and get a PDF with only those pages), or extract ranges (pass [1-5, 10-15] and get a PDF with pages 1-5 and 10-15 combined). One API call, complete flexibility.
Full fidelity. Every font, color, image, link preserved. Process 50-page PDFs in 2 seconds. Handles edge cases: blank pages, rotated pages, embedded media. No degradation, no corruption.
Trigger splitting based on conditions in your app. Extract, validate, route documents programmatically. Integrate with document management systems, workflow tools, email systems. Full end-to-end automation.
Rotated pages, unusual sizes, blank pages, embedded media—all handled correctly. We preserve original orientation and dimensions. What you split is exactly what was in the original PDF.
Send 100 PDFs and they're split in parallel. One API call per file, or batch requests for efficiency. Process thousands of files daily without bottlenecks or infrastructure complexity.
Subscription for consistent, predictable splitting volume. Pay-as-you-go tokens for irregular batch jobs or testing. Scale with your business needs. See our pricing page for plan details.
Join companies using PDF Technologies API to split thousands of documents monthly without manual intervention.
Yes. Pass the page count and we'll return a separate PDF for each page, or specify custom ranges. Batch requests are supported—send 100 PDFs and they're split in parallel.
Completely different use case. Free tools are for manual one-off splits. Our API is for automation: you programmatically trigger splits based on conditions, integrate results into workflows, handle thousands of files. Free tools can't do that.
Everything is preserved: fonts, colors, images, hyperlinks, form fields. The output is byte-for-byte faithful to the original PDF. No degradation.
Yes. One API call, specify your page ranges, get back multiple PDFs or a single combined file. Our API is designed for batch efficiency.
Yes. We preserve the original orientation and dimensions. If page 1 is landscape and page 5 is portrait, that's maintained in the split output.
Starter: 25MB. Professional: 100MB. Higher-volume plans: Custom limits. Most PDFs are well under these limits. If you're hitting limits, your PDFs probably have embedded images—consider compressing first.
Not directly. Our API splits by page ranges. If you need content-based splitting (e.g., "split when you see a new invoice"), you'd pair our extraction API with your own logic to identify split points, then use the split API. We can guide you on this workflow.
Rare, but it happens with corrupted PDFs. Our API returns a clear error. All plans include automatic repair attempts before returning an error.
Not directly. Use our password removal service first, then split. Contact us if you need a combined workflow—available on all plans.
No practical limit. We've successfully split 1000-page PDFs. The limiting factor is file size, not page count.
PDFs are processed in-memory, not stored. No logging unless explicitly enabled (available on all plans for compliance). We don't analyze content or use it for any purpose beyond your request.