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Anonymous

Question

Extracting pdfs automatically

Forum|Forum|9 years ago
May 4, 2017
6 replies
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Hello all,

I have adobe pro X and have created an action to extract the first page of a pdf from a folder and then save the extraction to another folder.

How can I run this on a schedule or every time new pdfs are placed into the folder?

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Anonymous

Thanks for all your replies! I will be using a 3rd party product.

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gkaiseril

Inspiring

Acrobat does not provide this feature, but there are 3rd party products that can perform this task.

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Anonymous

Thank you.

I have decided to use a plug-in for acrobat that creates a batch file of an action. From there I can automate it.

Joel Geraci

Community Expert

Before you do that, understand that it is a violation of the licensing terms if anyone other than you puts anything in that watched folder.

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Anonymous

That's a shame. Thank you everyone.

Karl Heinz Kremer

Community Expert

You can write an external program (e.g. in VB) and then use Acrobat's IAC API to automate things in Acrobat. This would allow you to handle a watched folder, and then whenever a PDF file is added to that folder, you would open the file using IAC functions in Acrobat and perform the necessary steps.

Keep in mind that the EULA does not allow you to use Acrobat on a server, or in a server like environment, but as long as only you - the licensed user of this instance of Acrobat - are adding files to the watched folder, you should be fine. I am not a lawyer, and that's just my interpretation of the EULA, so you should check with a lawyer to make sure you are within the limits of the EULA.

Joel Geraci

Community Expert

To expand on the above answers...

The Acrobat DC viewer does not support automation through watched folders. However, you can create droplets for preflight fix ups. Unfortunately, page extraction isn't one of those.

The Acrobat DC Distiller does support watched folders for conversion from PostScript to PDF.

try67

Community Expert

Not possible with Acrobat.

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Anonymous

Not even with a javascript?

Do you know of anything that can do such a process?

Thank you for your response.

try67

Community Expert

No, JS can't do it either.

It can be done using a stand-alone application, running independently of Acrobat, though.

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