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November 8, 2007

Save multipage PDF into separate pages as PDF files

  • November 8, 2007
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Hi,



I have a 5 page PDF form. I need to save this 5 page form as 5 seperate PDFs. Each PDF will be of one page from the original form. So i need to split the 5 page original PDF into 5 seperate single page PDF. I need to do this as part of my workflow. Please help.
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    31 replies

    New Participant
    September 15, 2011

    I found a much faster drag and drop option that allows you to split up a pdf document, by dragging a page or multiple pages into any folder you want... so much faster!

    I'm using Adobe Acrobat Pro 9:

    -Go to View--> Navigation Panels--> Show Navigation Pane (The navigation pane should pop up on the left hand side, and shows small tiles of each page in your pdf).

    -Now select the Hand Tool (it looks like a white glove)- located in the menu at the top (if you don't see it, go to View--> Toolbars--> Select and Zoom and it should appear in the toolbars at the top).

    -With the Hand Tool activated you can grab a page from the navigation panel and drop it into any folder or onto your desktop; to grab more than one page, click in the grey area surrounding the small tiles and you can drag over more than one, also try using the shift key to highlight pages that aren't side by side.

    Hope this helps!

    PS: You can do this on a mac computer without using Adobe; its a built in feature of the document preview software that comes on macs.

    September 15, 2011

    Thank you so much. This is exactly what I needed. Thank you for responsding.

    New Participant
    June 21, 2011

    Using Acrobat 10, simply click View > Tools > Pages > Extract to quickly produce the single page files you need.

    June 21, 2011

    Thank you, everyone, for all your responses. I've have it so it will work now. I appreciate your help.

    New Participant
    February 16, 2011

    I don't have Acrobat,too. I don't think it is convenient enough to split PDF pages, see you have to find the page you need then extract it repetitively one by one. To split PDF into single page, I think there is also a better program. A smart PDF splitter will take you out of painstaking manually splitting.

    It will do the rest for you automatically.

    New Participant
    September 15, 2010

    I was able to accomplish this using a free online service called www.splitpdf.net.  You simply upload the file and tell it which page you want extracted.  It then returns a pdf containing only the page you selected.  Unfortunately, you have to repeat this step for each page you need to extract but it's an easy process.

    September 16, 2010

    Thank you so much for this information. I will definitely use it on my next report.

    Ilene

    New Participant
    August 30, 2010

    I am on Reader 9.3 and I don't see pages or extract pages under documents.  Is it because we only have Adobe Reader and nothing else?

    New Participant
    August 30, 2010

    You need any of the Adobe Acrobat products; not Adobe reader. Adobe Reader is the free lighter version of Acrobat from Adobe without all the bells and whistles of Acrobat. I used Acrobat at work to break my pages since I too have only Adobe Reader at home. Yeah it sucks I know. You might try the library, work, etc.for a computer with Acrobat. You can pick it up pretty cheap on ebay or craigslist.

    New Participant
    June 3, 2010

    AWESOME!!!! This thread was exactly what I needed. I split a single 8 page pdf into 8 separate pages.

    Well done!

    April 27, 2010

    I have Acrobat 9. When I click on the ‘Document’ option in the toolbar, I click on ‘Extract Pages’. It then asks me to specify what pages I want to extract and gives me 2 check box options. The first asks if I want to delete the pages after I extract and the second gives me the option to extract each page to an individual file.

    Hope this is helpful to someone... :o)

    August 13, 2010

    Stewart,

    When I specify what pages I want to save as individual pages, is there a way to name each page?

    Ilene Young

    New Participant
    April 22, 2015

    Has anyone figured out how to have each page named by content in the file rather than numerically?

    rcraighead
    New Participant
    March 14, 2009
    I used this method to extract pages from a Illustrator CS4 file and they appear as single pages in Acrobat, but when opened in AI, all pages are still in each file. I'm looking for a simple way to export individual pages from an AICS4 multi-page PDF.
    July 2, 2010

    to avoid that make sure you unchecked the "preserve illustrator editing capabilities" before saving your illustrator file into pdf.

    December 7, 2008
    I have the new Acrobat Reader 9.

    When I go to Document I don't have "Page" feature.

    So I cannot separate the pages.

    What do I do?
    New Participant
    February 18, 2010

    I am using Acrobat 8.0 I don't have a "pages" either.  But you should see "Extract Pages" under the Document drop-down list.  It work perfect for me and saved a lot of time.  Glad that Adobe had the foresight to build in this function.

    February 24, 2008
    Document > Pages > Extract



    Specify which pages to extract

    Press OK

    Pages you specified will appear in a new document

    You can save this under a new file name



    This is all in the help section..search for 'extract pages'
    July 2, 2010

    This worked perfectly. Only one thing, if you open the pdf on ilustrator again all the pages will still appear, to avoid that make sure you unchecked the "preserve illustrator editing capabilities" before saving your illustrator file into pdf.

    Hope it helps