---
title: Divide Pages
description: Split PDF pages horizontally or vertically into smaller sub-pages.
---

# Divide Pages

Cut individual PDF pages into halves by splitting them horizontally or vertically. This is useful when a single page contains content that should be separated into distinct pages -- for example, a two-column layout scanned as one wide page.

## How It Works

1. Upload a PDF file.
2. Select the split direction: **Vertical** (left/right halves) or **Horizontal** (top/bottom halves).
3. Optionally specify a page range to limit which pages get divided. Leave blank to divide all pages.
4. Click the process button to generate the divided PDF.

## Features

- Vertical split: divides each page into left and right halves
- Horizontal split: divides each page into top and bottom halves
- Page range filter to selectively divide specific pages
- Non-targeted pages pass through unchanged
- Preserves content quality without re-rendering

## Use Cases

- Separating two-up scanned pages (e.g., a book scan with left and right pages on one sheet)
- Splitting a landscape PDF with side-by-side content into individual portrait pages
- Dividing tall infographics or posters into separate top and bottom sections
- Preparing wide-format documents for standard paper printing

## Tips

- If your pages have unequal content distribution, the split still happens at the exact midpoint. For asymmetric splits, consider [Crop PDF](./crop-pdf) instead.
- Combine this tool with [Rotate PDF](./rotate-pdf) if your pages need rotation before or after dividing.

## Related Tools

- [Split PDF](./split-pdf)
- [Crop PDF](./crop-pdf)
- [N-Up PDF](./n-up-pdf)
- [Posterize PDF](./posterize-pdf)