Split pages in half
Scanned a book or magazine? Every sheet holds two pages. This cuts them apart into single pages — vertically for a spread, or across for stacked slips.
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Scanned a book? Each sheet holds two pages — this separates them
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How it works
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Drop in the PDF whose pages need splitting.
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Choose whether to cut down the middle (a book spread) or across it.
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Download — every page becomes two, and the text stays selectable.
Frequently asked questions
What is this for?
Scanning a book, magazine or newspaper gives you one wide image per sheet holding two facing pages. Every reader then shows two pages at once, and printing is awkward. This cuts each sheet down the middle so the document reads one page at a time, as it was written.
Does it turn my text into a picture?
No. The two halves are drawn from the original page, so text stays text — selectable, searchable and sharp at any zoom. Nothing is rasterised.
What about right-to-left books?
Tick the right-to-left box. In Arabic, Hebrew and manga the left side of a spread is the second page, not the first, so the halves are emitted in the other order.
Can it cut across instead of down?
Yes. Choose "Across the middle" for a sheet holding two stacked items — tickets, receipts, half-page forms.
Is my file uploaded?
No. The whole thing happens inside your browser, so the document never reaches a server.
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Four things a page can need doing to it
Scan a book and every sheet holds two pages, which no reader will separate for you — Split pages in half cuts them apart, and it knows that in Arabic, Hebrew and manga the left-hand page is the second one, not the first. Pages per sheet does the opposite, putting 2, 4, 9 or 16 pages on one sheet so a long document prints short; the pages are placed as real pages rather than pictures, so they stay sharp however small they get. Change page size gives a document one size — and its more useful half simply asks what size the file already mostly is and makes the stragglers match, which is what you want after merging things from three different places. Rasterize turns every page into a picture, for when a document has to look identical everywhere and nothing in it should be selectable; it says plainly that this cannot be undone. All four run in your browser, on any file, free.