Split PDF files into separate documents on your phone

Overview

Choose a PDF and decide how it should be cut: every page as its own PDF, or groups of a fixed size, such as every 2 or every 10 pages. iEdit tells you how many files the choice will make before you confirm. Each page is copied exactly as it is, so text stays selectable and searchable, links keep working, form fields survive and vector drawings stay sharp. The new files appear together in My files.

Splitting is one of the three jobs of the Extract pages tool, alongside taking out selected pages and reordering them. It works with PDFs of any length and has been tested with 500-page files. Because pages are copied rather than rendered again, nothing is lost in quality, however many parts you make. Password-protected or restricted PDFs are refused with an explanation; a PDF that only carries an owner password is split and the parts are saved without protection.

Use it when a scanner has put a whole stack of letters into one PDF, when a long report has to go out in smaller parts, or when an upload form accepts only one page per file. Any of the parts can be joined again later with Merge PDF. Everything runs on your iPhone, iPad or Android device, so the document is never uploaded and splitting works without an internet connection.