Easiest way to index/rearrange the pages in a giant PDF document?

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At my office, we often receive giant PDFs of legal records that are over 1000 pages long. The documents are usually almost completely disorganized. Part of what my tea is responsible for, is indexing the files: putting all the pages in the correct order (by date). Going through the document and dragging the pages one-by-one is not at all efficient. Any thoughts on a better way of doing this?

For example, could I create a new pdf with tabs representing specifics month and then drag the pages over to the tabs as I read through the document?

Open to any all suggestions/solutions?

Thanks.

try67 · Accepted Answer

There are several ways this could be done, all of which will require some sort of custom-made script to perform the actual sorting.

You could extract the pages to individual files based on months, yes, or you could "tag" each page with the date so that it can be automatically sorted later on. This tagging can be done using bookmarks, for example, or using some sort of comment, or even by using form fields.

I've developed various such tools for my customers in the past, so if you wish to discuss it in detail feel free to contact me privately (try6767 at gmail.com).

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