Help with Acrobat Automating Combining pdfs from csv

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January 17, 2024
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Hey there, I'm looking for help with an automation in Adobe Acrobat. We print stationery for our customers. They purchase the item, and we select the pdf files for their items and combine them to make file for printing. We would like to be able to automate this by using a csv that will contain the purchased items SKUs, which is identical to the file names for each item, and have those pdfs automatically combined in acrobat with a few preflights added on at the end. Is this possible? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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Raymond Camden

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To be clear, anything is possible, but you have to remember -our- part is literally just to handle the combination of 2 or more PDFs. We don't read CSV files. Now, depending on your system, that's relatively simple to do (for example, in Node.js), and you could write code to parse the CSV, figure out which PDFs need to be combined, and then call our service, but we really can't help you with any of that.

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Thanks a lot for the response! So just before I get started, if it's possible for me to figure on my end how to have the files listed in the csv copied to one folder, then Adobe could say, automatically select the files in this folder to combine, and run some deteremined preflights on those pdfs?

Raymond Camden

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That's what I'd do - get everything working up to the point of, "Ok, I know what files I need to combine." Honestly, are part will probably be less than 30 minutes to implement. The other parts of your process are where the complexity is.

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