Extracting pages in pdf file

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December 1, 2023
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I have a 693 page pdf file and need to extract every 3rd page. Does anyone know how to accomplish this?

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try67

Community Expert

Do you mean pages 1, 4, 7, etc.?

What should be the names of the files when these pages are extracted?

aneegeeAuthor

Participant

Pages would be 3, 6, 9, 12 etc. Then extracted into one file.

try67

Community Expert

As mentioned, it would be easier to do it by deleting all the other pages, and then saving the file under a new name. You can do that using this code:

for (var i=this.numPages-1; i>=0; i--) {
	if (((i+1)%3)!=0) this.deletePages(i,i);
}
this.saveAs(this.path.replace(this.documentFileName, "ExtractedPages.pdf"));

You can run it from the JS Console, for example.