Fortunately, many manuals and documents in PDF format are easy to find on the web, and if someone needs them, we can always share a download link. However, there are times when the PDF is gigantic, our only option is to email it, and attaching large files becomes a pain on slow or metered connections. A good alternative is to extract only the essential content of the document, and for that we use SepPDF, a tool that lets us split a PDF into multiple PDFs without headaches.
Some PDF manuals are excellent. Complete texts, high-resolution images, clear diagrams, links that work correctly. But the PDF format obtains all that richness and complexity by sacrificing flexibility. In other words, if you want to do things like merge two PDFs, censor its text, simplify its digital signature, or convert the content to images, you'll need to seek help from external tools.
Another frequent doubt is how to split a PDF into multiple PDFs. The need is easy to visualize: Why send an attachment with a PDF of 170 pages, when what is truly important to us is on page 47? Fortunately, a small utility of Japanese origin called SepPDF allows us to do this division easily and quickly, for free, and offline.
How to split a PDF into multiple PDFs using SepPDF
The interface is Spartan to the core and has only two main functions: Split(All) to divide all pages of a document into independent PDFs, and Split(PageEtcInput) to customize the selection. Unless it's a small document, the second option will be much more useful. If you only want to convert a specific page to PDF, it's enough to assign its number as both start and end. Other secondary options are choosing the destination folder, and matching the new file's date and time to the original document.
An unusual but no less interesting function is to split the content of a page into separate pages. The program cuts the sheets horizontally or vertically, and there are also special patterns for 4 and 8 divisions.
The last fact I want to highlight about SepPDF is that it does not obey the numbering configured in the document, but rather counts "real" pages within the document. For example, in our test PDF, the SumatraPDF reader correctly interprets its numbering, but also records the total pages. That means if we want to split or extract page 27 of the document, we must indicate its effective position as page 33 in SepPDF. Try it!
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