Split PDF in half
Separate scanned book spreads into two pages.
- Zero-transmission processing
- No watermark
- Limited daily trial
- Unlimited on Pro
Drop your PDF here
or choose it from your files
Your files are never transmitted. Nothing is uploaded.
Before you start
- Only cut two-page spreads leaves normal pages alone — once the file is in, you'll see how many get cut.
- Book read right to left (Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese)? Turn on Right-to-left so the halves keep their order.
Good to know
- Accepts
- Files at once
- One at a time
- Transmission
- None — nothing is uploaded.
Chain it
Next, run OCR PDF → Add Page Numbers on the result back to back — nothing to download in between.
How to do it
Add your file
Add a PDF where two pages sit side by side on one sheet — a scanned book, a spread exported from a design program, anything photographed as an open double page.
Set it up the way you want
Choose whether to cut vertically or horizontally, and which half comes first. Reading direction matters: a right-to-left document needs the right half first.
Download the result
Download the result. Every sheet has become two pages, in reading order, and the page count doubles.
Questions about Split PDF in half
- Why would a PDF have two pages on one sheet?
- Almost always a scanned book. A flatbed captures the open spread as one image, so a 300-page book arrives as 150 wide pages. Split in half turns it back into a document you can read on a phone.
- The halves came out in the wrong order.
- Then the reading direction is reversed for your document. Arabic and other right-to-left texts need the right half first; run it again with the order flipped and the pages fall into place.
- The cut is slightly off center.
- The split is at the exact middle of the sheet. If the original scan was not centered, the cut inherits that. Crop the pages first to even up the margins, then split.