- Upload your PDF to a server
- Wait while it’s processed
- Download it again
- Data you upload
- 40 MB
- Copies on other servers
- At least 1
- Needs internet
- Yes
- File size limit
- Almost always

Separate chapters, invoices or single pages in seconds. Shinobi.pdf runs on your computer: fast, private and free.

Tap a PDF and watch it get sliced
Online tools ask you to upload contracts, invoices or notes to someone else’s server. Shinobi.pdf does everything on your PC: nothing is uploaded, nothing is stored anywhere else.
Choose where to cut and Shinobi.pdf does the rest with ninja precision: no quality loss, and your bookmarks stay intact.

If the PDF has an outline, Shinobi.pdf detects the chapters for you. Color-coded thumbnails show which pages go into each file.
Starts a new file on every page that contains some text. Great for invoices, receipts or statements bundled in a single PDF.
Type “Invoice No.” and get one file per invoice, named after its number. Perfect for statements and receipts.
Starts a new file on every page that contains some text. Great for invoices, receipts or statements bundled in a single PDF.
Search text inside the PDF with Ctrl+F: matches are highlighted on the page and marked on the thumbnails.
Starts a new file on every page that contains some text. Great for invoices, receipts or statements bundled in a single PDF.
Combine several PDFs into one, in any order, with one bookmark per file in the outline.
Merge PDFs
Combine several PDFs into one. Reorder them with the arrows.
Starts a new file on every page that contains some text. Great for invoices, receipts or statements bundled in a single PDF.
Starts a new file on every page that contains some text. Great for invoices, receipts or statements bundled in a single PDF.
Starts a new file on every page that contains some text. Great for invoices, receipts or statements bundled in a single PDF.
Merge PDFs
Combine several PDFs into one. Reorder them with the arrows.
By chapters, every N pages, by ranges, by size or by text.
Enter the password once and you’re set. Generated files have no password.
Right-click any PDF → “Split with Shinobi.pdf”.


A modern interface that adapts to your screen, from laptops to large monitors.
Use “Start” and “End” while browsing pages. Rotate or exclude the ones you don’t want.
Turn pages into PNG or JPG in three qualities.
Apply the same split to dozens of PDFs at once.
Save your settings and reuse them with other documents.
Keyboard shortcuts for everything you do often.
Try pressing (or tapping) them: they light up.
The latest additions to Shinobi.pdf, straight from GitHub.
Shinobi.pdf is free software under the AGPL-3.0 license. You can read the code, suggest improvements or report problems on GitHub.
Shinobi.pdf has no ads and no paid version. If it saved you time, a donation helps cover the installer’s code-signing certificate and keep adding features.
Yes. Shinobi.pdf is free, with no ads, no accounts and no paid version. It’s free software under the AGPL-3.0 license.
No. Everything is processed on your computer. The app only goes online to check for new versions, and you can turn that off in Settings.
Because the installer isn’t digitally signed yet (that requires a paid certificate). It’s safe: the code is open source and the installer is built automatically on GitHub. Click “More info” → “Run anyway”.
Yes, completely. You can split, merge and convert PDFs without internet.
For now it’s Windows 10 and 11 only. If you’d like another platform, let us know on GitHub.
From the app, in Settings → “Report a problem” (it fills in the technical details for you, with no personal data), directly on GitHub, or by email at contacto@shinobipdf.com.
