I need to pull three pages out of a PDF on my phone, but everything I’ve tried asks for payment before saving. Is there a free splitter that works well on mobile?
Honestly I skip splitter apps. Open the PDF, choose Print, set the page range to those three pages, then pick Save as PDF; on iPhone you can pinch out on the preview to save or share it. Works from the built-in viewer or Google Drive too.
I had the same trouble trying to pull a couple of pages from an ebook on my mobile. I use pdfcap.com now since it runs in your phone’s browser without paying:
- Upload your file to their split tool.
- Type in the page numbers you want.
- Tap split to download them.
Just use the print function built into your phone. Open the file, tap print, select only the three pages you want, and choose to save as a PDF instead of sending it to an actual printer. Avoid downloading random free apps from the store because they just spam you with adverts. I learned this the hard way when trying to separate my market invoices on the go.
On an iPhone you can actually do this with the built in Files app or the Photos/Markup share sheet, select the pages you want in the PDF preview and export just those. On Android, Google Drive’s PDF viewer has a similar page selection option when you print to PDF. Learned this the hard way after paying for an app that watermarked everything.
@reid21 Same here, print to PDF never asks for payment. The page range box is fussy on my Android though, not sure if it’s the same on iPhone.
@emily.7 On Android, try entering the pages as comma-separated numbers, like “2, 5, 7”, rather than a range. If the box still misbehaves, opening the file in Google Drive or Chrome before choosing Print usually makes the page selection work better.