Short version: open the free tool, drop your file, download the result. Nothing is uploaded.
Steps
- Open the free WBS PDF Split tool and drop your PDF. It shows how many pages it has.
- Choose Every page.
- Press Split PDF. You get one PDF per page, named like
report-p1.pdf,report-p2.pdfand so on. - Download each file, or use Download all as ZIP with Pro.
Common reasons to do this
- A scanner put a whole stack of receipts or invoices into one PDF and each needs its own file.
- A portal wants each certificate or form uploaded separately.
- You want to send one page without the rest.
Free vs Pro
The free version makes up to 20 files per split, which covers most documents. For longer files, either split in two steps (use Each range as a separate PDF with 1-20, then the rest) or get WBS Tools Pro ($7 once), which makes any number of files and saves them as one ZIP.
Not quite one page each?
To keep pairs together (front and back of a scanned card), choose Every N pages and type 2. To pull out just some pages, see how to split a PDF or extract pages. To put pages back together later, use PDF Merge.
Other ways
On a Mac, you can open the PDF in Preview, show thumbnails, and drag a page to the desktop to make a one-page PDF. On Windows, you can print a single page to "Microsoft Print to PDF". Both work one page at a time; the split tool does every page in one go.
What you get
Each new file is a real PDF page copied as-is: text stays selectable and nothing is re-compressed. (This makes PDFs, not JPG images.) Password-protected PDFs need the password removed first.
More free guides
- Compress an image to 100 KB
- Photo and signature under 20 KB or 50 KB for forms
- Compress an image for Discord
- Reduce photo size for email
- Convert WebP to JPG
- Convert WebP to PNG with transparency
- Remove GPS location from photos
- Merge PDF files
- Split a PDF or extract pages
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