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vincentb92193163
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April 7, 2017
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Breaking Apart an Existing PDF file

  • April 7, 2017
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Hello:

I have an existing PDF file (i.e., must find it on my Windows10 desktop PC yet), which contains many pages. This was generated by an health-provider organization and given to me.

I want to be able to extract one or more pages in a sequence, and create a separate PDF file that contains the extracted page(s).  If this were a MS Word document, then I would want to insert a new-page marker at the appropriate location within the page on screen.  Go through the entire PDF document and inserting page-breaks as needed.

Which Adobe application can handle this? I do have the free Adobe Acrobat Reader DC.

Thanks for reading this.

VinceB.

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    Correct answer ~graffiti

    So you want to say, break the bottom half of page one into a new pdf file with the bottom half of page one and the entire page two (not literally but just as an example of course)?

    You can do it with Adobe Acrobat Pro DC but it won't be super easy. You could say extract page one and page two (as two separate files), use the crop tool to remove the top half of page one then merge that and page two together. Not super easy but doable sure.

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    ~graffiti
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    Legend
    April 7, 2017

    The free Acrobat Reader cannot do this. It would require the full version of Acrobat.

    vincentb92193163
    vincentb92193163Author
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    April 7, 2017

    TNX for your reply.  Can you provide the complete name of the full version of Acrobat or a link to me?

    I want to be clear: the page break would not necessarily be at the top of an existing page; rather, the page break may be needed anywhere below the top of the existing page. 

    Unfortunately, the PDF given to me is one huge file of medical records from various clinics.  My goal is to create a folder for each clinic and move individual Progress Notes from a clinic into the appropriate folder.

    VinceB.

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    Legend
    April 7, 2017

    So you want to say, break the bottom half of page one into a new pdf file with the bottom half of page one and the entire page two (not literally but just as an example of course)?

    You can do it with Adobe Acrobat Pro DC but it won't be super easy. You could say extract page one and page two (as two separate files), use the crop tool to remove the top half of page one then merge that and page two together. Not super easy but doable sure.

    Plans and pricing | Adobe Acrobat DC

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