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August 19, 2020
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Is there a program, or way to extract pages and name the resulting PDFs based on a list?

  • August 19, 2020
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I have a bunch of training documents that I scan into PDFs. I then go into the resulting PDF with all the training, and extract each page, and save them to the appropiate trainees file, using their name, type of training, and date as the file name. This is very repetive, is there another way to this?

 

I was thinking I could do something similiar to a "mail merge", where I scan the traning in a specific order, and have a list of corresponfing file names. 

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try67
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Community Expert
August 20, 2020

Yes, that is likely possible, either based on an external file that contains the data, or even by extracting the data from the page itself (if it's readable and consistent). Either way, it will require the development of a custom-made tool.

If you're interested in hiring someone to create it for you feel free to contact me privately via [try6767 at gmail.com] to discuss it further.

AkanchhaS8194121
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August 20, 2020

Hey!

Thanks for reaching out to Acrobat Community. If I understand correctly, you are willing to get the automated file name added to extracted file, rather than naming them manually. Is that the case?

What type of name list you are referring above? I wonder there would be any option for doing so. Whenever a file is extracted, you have to select the location to save it. As well as give the appropriate name. (as per your choice)

 

With the latest Aug release, now a new document preference is added to let you use the filename as the document title. See if this change helps you a bit: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/whats-new.html#Optiontousefilenameasdocumenttitle

 

Thanks,

Akanchha