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You need pages 5-12 from a 50-page PDF. Or you need to split a report into chapters. Reddit says: browser tool for quick splits, PDFTK for scripted batch work. Here is the comparison.
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Open PDF Splitter| Tool | Type | Price | Watermark | Batch | Best For |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Browser splitter | Web (local) | ✓ Free | ✓ None | Sequential | Quick page extraction |
| PDFTK | CLI (local) | ✓ Free | ✓ None | ✓ Scripted | Batch automation |
| Preview (Mac) | Desktop | ✓ Free | ✓ None | Manual | Mac users, simple splits |
| Adobe Acrobat | Desktop | $23/month | ✓ None | ✓ | Already have subscription |
| SmallPDF | Web (server) | Free + $12/mo | ✓ None | One file | Non-sensitive, occasional |
| Sejda | Web (server) | Free + $7.50/mo | ~Sometimes | One file | Non-sensitive, small files |
| Task | How | Tool |
|---|---|---|
| Extract pages 5-12 | Select page range 5-12, download | Browser splitter |
| Split into chapters | Extract each chapter range separately | Browser splitter |
| Every page as separate PDF | Select "split all pages" | Browser splitter |
| Remove pages 3 and 7 | Extract all EXCEPT those pages | Browser splitter |
| Split 100 PDFs by same rule | Script: pdftk input.pdf cat 1-5 output ch1.pdf | PDFTK |
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