Pages are copied unchanged rather than re-printed, so text stays selectable and scans keep their resolution — Print to PDF cannot promise either. The parts arrive as one ZIP built on your PC, named after the original with a page or part number, and nothing is uploaded at any stage. Files above 200 MB open in big-file mode, which streams the document so that a huge scan splits with little memory in use; the size-based mode needs the file loaded and is unavailable there. For a handful of specific pages, Extract pages lets you click them on a board.
How it works
- Open Bindery in your Windows browser and drop the PDF into Split
- Pick every page, every N pages, at bookmarks, or under a size
- Download the ZIP of parts
Questions people ask
How is this better than Print to PDF?
Print to PDF re-renders the page through the print system: text can become outlines, links and bookmarks vanish, and you repeat the dialog once per part. Bindery copies the original pages into each part unchanged and produces every part in one job.
Can I split a PDF under an email size limit?
Yes. Choose “under a size” and type the limit — 10 MB is the default — and Bindery writes the fewest consecutive parts that each stay below it, checking the real bytes of each part rather than estimating from page counts.
Where is the ZIP saved?
In your Downloads folder like any file. If you install Bindery from the Edge or Chrome menu, you can pick a folder once and have every result saved straight into it. Nothing is kept anywhere else, because the file was never uploaded.