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Split an ADP payroll register PDF into one file per employee.

The Payroll Register report from ADP Workforce Now or RUN Powered by ADP exports as one long PDF covering the whole company, with no bookmarks and a different number of earnings/deductions lines per employee. PDF SmartSplit finds each new employee's section by matching text like "Employee ID" and splits there automatically — entirely in this browser tab.

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How to split an ADP payroll register by employee

ADP's Payroll Register report is designed to be read or archived as a whole run, not distributed to individual employees — every section is a different length because employees have different numbers of earnings codes, deductions, and tax lines. Here's the faster way to split it.

Run and export the register from ADP

From Reports → Payroll → Payroll Register (Workforce Now) or the Reports tab in RUN, generate the register for the pay period and export it as PDF. ADP produces one file for every employee in the run.

Drop it into PDF SmartSplit

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Download one zip, one PDF per employee

ADP prints "Employee ID" once at the top of every employee's block — match on that and each employee's section, however many pages it runs, comes out as its own PDF inside one zip.

Why "Employee ID" works well as a match: ADP prints it once at the top of every employee's section and it's numeric, so it won't accidentally match unrelated body text elsewhere on the page — a cleaner boundary than matching on employee names, which can occasionally repeat inside notes or memo fields. If your register instead leads each section with "Employee Name" or "SSN" (last 4), use that text instead. Honest limitation: this only works on a register PDF with a real, selectable text layer — the kind ADP generates directly from a report export. A version that's been printed and rescanned has no extractable text, so text-match splitting can't find the boundaries there (page-count splitting still works if every employee's section is the same length, which is rare in payroll registers). PDF SmartSplit uses pdf.js to read the text and pdf-lib to assemble each employee's pages into their own file, both running as JavaScript in this page.

Split your ADP payroll register

Free tier: 1 file at a time, up to 30 pages. Text-layer PDFs only (no scanned/OCR yet).

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Need to rename each file by employee automatically?

Free tier splits and numbers the files for you. Pro (in development) renames each output from the extracted text — e.g. jane-doe_2026-08-15.pdf instead of part-03.pdf — plus multi-file batch processing and unlimited pages. One-time $19, no subscription.

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Your payroll data never leaves your browser

PDF SmartSplit has no upload endpoint, no server that touches your document, and no account to leak. Open your browser's network tab while you split an ADP register — you'll see it stay quiet. Processing uses pdf.js and pdf-lib running as JavaScript in this tab; the zip is built in memory and handed straight to your browser's download dialog.