Split a PDF Page into Multiple Pages in Java

PDF files containing multiple pages can be split into multiple different PDF files using Free Spire.PDF for Java, and if you want to split a PDF page into multiple pages, the free library is also capable of doing that.

Import Dependency

Method 1: Download the free library and unzip it. Then add the Spire.Pdf.jar file to your project as dependency.
Method 2: Directly add the jar dependency to maven project by adding the following configurations to the pom.xml.

<repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>com.e-iceblue</id>
        <name>e-iceblue</name>
        <url>https://repo.e-iceblue.com/nexus/content/groups/public/</url>
    </repository>
</repositories>
<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>e-iceblue</groupId>
        <artifactId>spire.pdf.free</artifactId>
        <version>5.1.0</version>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

Sample Code

Free Spire.PDF for Java supports horizontally or vertically split a single PDF page into multiple pages. The below example shows how to horizontally split a PDF page into two pages.

import com.spire.pdf.*;
import com.spire.pdf.graphics.*;
import java.awt.geom.Point2D;

public class SplitPDF {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

        //Create an object of PdfDocument class.
        PdfDocument pdf = new PdfDocument();

        //Load the sample PDF document
        pdf.loadFromFile("E:\\Files\\input1.pdf");

        //Get the first page of PDF
        PdfPageBase page = pdf.getPages().get(0);

        //Create a new PDF document and remove page margins
        PdfDocument newPdf = new PdfDocument();
        newPdf.getPageSettings().getMargins().setAll(0);

        //Horizontally Split
        newPdf.getPageSettings().setWidth((float) page.getSize().getWidth());
        newPdf.getPageSettings().setHeight((float) page.getSize().getHeight()/2);

        ////Vertically Split
        //newPdf.getPageSettings().setWidth((float) page.getSize().getWidth()/2);
        //newPdf.getPageSettings().setHeight((float) page.getSize().getHeight());

        // Add a new page to the new PDF document
        PdfPageBase newPage = newPdf.getPages().add();

        //Set the PdfLayoutType to Paginate to make the content paginated automatically
        PdfTextLayout layout = new PdfTextLayout();
        layout.setBreak(PdfLayoutBreakType.Fit_Page);
        layout.setLayout(PdfLayoutType.Paginate);

        //Draw the content of source page in the new page
        page.createTemplate().draw(newPage, new Point2D.Float(0, 0), layout);

        //Save the Pdf document
        newPdf.saveToFile("SplitPDF.pdf");
        newPdf.close();
    }
}