How to split a PDF file into separate page PDF files in Node.JS

With this one simple trick, you will be able to turn one PDF file into multiple separate PDFs, each with a single page from the original.

Let’s start with setup of our client.

npm install cloudmersive-convert-api-client --save

Now we can use our client to instantiate an API object, from which we will be able to call splitDocumentPdfByPage.

var CloudmersiveConvertApiClient = require('cloudmersive-convert-api-client');
var defaultClient = CloudmersiveConvertApiClient.ApiClient.instance;
// Configure API key authorization: Apikey
var Apikey = defaultClient.authentications['Apikey'];
Apikey.apiKey = 'YOUR API KEY';
// Uncomment the following line to set a prefix for the API key, e.g. "Token" (defaults to null)
//Apikey.apiKeyPrefix = 'Token';
var apiInstance = new CloudmersiveConvertApiClient.SplitDocumentApi();
var inputFile = "/path/to/file"; // File | Input file to perform the operation on.
var opts = {
'returnDocumentContents': true // Boolean | Set to true to directly return all of the document contents in the DocumentContents field; set to false to return contents as temporary URLs (more efficient for large operations).  Default is false.
};
var callback = function(error, data, response) {
if (error) {
console.error(error);
} else {
console.log('API called successfully. Returned data: ' + data);
}
};
apiInstance.splitDocumentPdfByPage(inputFile, opts, callback);

And now if you just enter your PDF’s file path, we are good to go. After a few seconds, you will have an array of PDFs, each with a single page from your document. You can also opt to have your response give you download URLs for each page instead using returnDocumentContents.