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gregn92182887
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January 16, 2021
Question

Separating a pdf into cover and text files

  • January 16, 2021
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I'm hoping someone could help me create a script that would extract the first two and the last two pages of a document and then save the new four page document with _cov appended.

 

Step 2 would save what is remaining of the origianl documet with _text appended to the filename.

 

So from one document I would end up with two files (filename_cov.pdf) and (filename_text.pdf)

 

I work in a print shop and we receive single files for books. Because the print on different stocks I have been manually separating the covers from the text portion before imposing for print. Thanks in advance to anyone willing to help.

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try67
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 16, 2021

This can be done with a custom-made script, but you would need to run it from a folder-level script or from an Action.

What version of Acrobat do you have?

gregn92182887
Participant
January 16, 2021

Thanks try677, I am running the latest version of Acrobat DC Pro. We have an adobe creative cloud subscription and I have run all the current updates.

gregn92182887
Participant
January 16, 2021

Seems to me an action would be ideal. Running it would effect the file currently open?