Split PDF by Bookmarks – Extract Chapters Free

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Split a PDF by Bookmarks: step by step

Turn each bookmark or chapter of a PDF into its own file. Free online tool to split by outline, no watermark, no install.

1. 1

   Upload your PDF

   Drop in a document with bookmarks and its outline fills a grey contents box — foldable to the children. No bookmarks yet? The Create Bookmarks tool opens your file ready to write them. Files are deleted after 2 hours.

   
2. 2

   Pick the level and filter

   Level buttons reach as deep as the document nests: 1 cuts at chapters, 2 at their sub-sections. “Contains text” narrows the cuts to bookmarks whose title holds a word — “Chapter”, “Part”, an address.

   
3. 3

   Split and download

   Press Split by bookmarks — each part runs from its bookmark's page to the page before the next one, so nothing is lost. If a chapter's last paragraphs spill onto the next bookmark's page, More options adds one extra page at the end. Parts come back in one ZIP named [FILENUMBER]_[BOOKMARK_NAME].

   

• The document writes the cut list

  Every bookmark at your chosen level starts a section — the contents box is the plan.

• Any nesting depth

  Level buttons reach as deep as the document nests — chapters or the sub-sections inside them.

• Contains text

  Split only at bookmarks whose title holds a word, like “Chapter” — the rest stay put.

• Names from the bookmarks

  [BOOKMARK_NAME] puts each bookmark's title on its file: 1_Getting started.pdf, 2_…

• One ZIP back

  Every part downloads together in a single ZIP; a lone bookmark returns one PDF.

• Private by default

  No account, no watermark — and every file is automatically deleted after 2 hours.