Surely it will have happened to you that you have a document in PDF format made up of several pages and you are really only interested in one. You enter the archive and have to scroll over and over again to the only page that interests you. Did you know that you can save only one page and thus discard all the padding?
By saving a single PDF page , also the data to be stored is less and the file is considerably smaller in size. In fact, many people split PDF files in order to more easily share these documents with the minimum weight necessary. We tell you how to do it from several different ways.
Through online tools
The most comfortable option, as for other functions to edit a PDF online, is to use a free online tool in which you can separate the page you are interested in and save it individually to reduce the size of the PDF to a single sheet .
Split PDF online
For example, Adobe itself, among the many options for editing this type of document, the Portable Document Format also includes an online tool that allows you to split a PDF . Simply upload the document, choose the page that will remain and save the new document.
Follow these easy steps to split a PDF document into multiple separate files:
- Click the Select a file button above, or drag and drop a PDF into the drop area.
- Sign in to Acrobat.
- Select dividing lines to create the page ranges you need for each split PDF file.
- Click Save . Acrobat will save the split PDF files in the original Document Cloud folder or in a new folder.
- Download, rename or share your new PDF documents.
There are many other equally efficient alternatives, but simplifying how easy it is to carry out this process as it does not require any login. Some examples are PDF2Go and FormatPDF .
From Acrobat Reader
Obviously, the main official PDF reading program itself also includes certain editing options. The option to save a single PDF page in Adobe Acrobat Reader is hidden under the “Organize Pages” feature, where you could later enable the feature to split a PDF file into multiple documents.
Organize pages in Acrobat Reader
On the secondary toolbar, click Extract . A new toolbar appears below the secondary toolbar with commands specific to the Extract operation.
In the next menu, you will have to specify the range of pages you want to extract. You can choose Even Pages, Odd Pages, Panoramic Pages, Portrait Pages or All Pages, or enter the number of the page on which you want to carry out the operation , which is what interests us in the case we are talking about today .
In the last step of the operation you will be able to choose between one or more of the following operations before clicking Extract:
- To remove the extracted pages from the original document, select Remove pages after extraction.
- To create a single page PDF for each extracted page, select Extract pages as separate files.
Curiously, although this function is offered for free by Adobe itself in its online tool, in the program it is part of the payment options of your account , so it is a more complicated and expensive option than that of online tools.