Action To Combine Multiple Files Across Directories Automatically

Question

Hi all,

Hoping to find some help here. I am looking for a way to use a Action to combine some PDFs unto the the end of the other files (combine), but across a large number of files, saving the output file by its original first page filename automatically.

It might be easy to understand with an example:

Folder A contains multiple files, let's say each named Summary Report 01, 02, 03, etc

Folder B contains multiple files, let's say Graph A, B C

Action script would take the first file found in Folder A (Summary Report 01), add on to the end of it all files in Folder B (Graph A, B C), then save the output as a PDF in Folder A (or a differernt folder if that is easier) as original filename Summary Report 01. *THEN*, it would look for the next file in Folder A (Summary Report 02), and proceed to do the same thing (adding on the Graph A, B, C, saving the output as a PDF called Summary Report 02). It would continue to run that cycle until all files in Folder A have been processed.

Is something like that possible??? Thanks!

try67 · Answer

This is not easily achieved in Acrobat. You would need to first scan the contents of both folders (using separate Actions), then use another script to do the combining, which is also not trivial. A much easier and faster solution (which you could also run automatically at certain intervals without user interaction) would be to do it using a stand-alone tool, preferably a command-line utility.

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