Does splitting a PDF reduce its quality?

No. Pages are copied into the new documents rather than rendered and rebuilt, so nothing is re-compressed. Text stays as text, vector graphics stay resolution-independent, and images keep their original encoded data.

Are my files uploaded to a server?

No. The split runs in your browser using your own processor, and there is no backend to send anything to. You can check rather than trust: the page is served with a Content Security Policy containing connect-src self, which makes it structurally incapable of opening a connection to another origin.

How do I take out just a few pages?

Choose "Choose pages" and type the ranges, for example 1-3, 5, 8-10. Each range becomes its own document. If you name a single range you get a single PDF back rather than a ZIP containing one file.

Why do I get a ZIP file?

Because splitting usually produces several documents, and browsers deliberately block a website from saving many files in a row. A ZIP is one download that contains all of them. If your split produces exactly one document you get that PDF directly instead.

Can I split a password-protected PDF?

Not while it is still encrypted. Docqify will tell you the file is password-protected rather than producing a document of blank pages, so you know to remove the password first.

Split PDF without uploading

Break a PDF into separate documents. Your file never leaves this device.

Nothing is uploaded
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Drop your PDF here

Split it into single pages, or pull out just the pages you need. It is opened on this device and never uploaded.

Split PDF, done properly

Splitting copies pages into new documents rather than rebuilding them, so every page comes out exactly as it went in — selectable text, sharp vectors, original image data. You can break a file into one document per page, which is what a batch of scans usually needs, or name specific ranges when you only want chapter three. Anything that produces more than one file is packaged into a ZIP, because browsers refuse to save a run of downloads one after another.

The file is read in memory and processed by your own browser. There is no server to upload it to, and the page ships a Content Security Policy that blocks connections to any other origin.
Ranges are written the way you would write them on paper: 1-3, 5, 8-10. Single pages and ranges can be mixed freely.
Every output is named for the pages it contains, so report-pages-8-10.pdf still makes sense once it has been moved out of the folder.
The ZIP is assembled here too. Nothing about splitting a document requires a network connection, so none is used at any point.

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