Combining multiple files from multiple folders automatically - batch proess? Wizard?

[Rupi_strives]

Hi there to anyone that can help

I have been researching this for a while now and to no avail.

On a regular basis I need to combine hundreds of pdf files into a single pdf file - no problem here using either acrobat 8, 10 or 11- I have them all installed.

But as I have so many other folders - sometimes 50 at any one time to combine (so that's 50 folders each with a hundreds of pdfs to combine into one) What I have been trying to discover is if there is a why to automate the process using the auto wizard or some time of batch process so that I can point acrobat to all the different folders I want it to process into single pdfs.   In this way I can keep acrobat running in the background to do its thing .

So far my search has proven fruitless. Can  anyone help?

Folder 1

a.pdf

b.pdf

c.pdf

combined and saved  to create abccombined.pdf

Folder 2

d.pdf

e.pdf

f.pdf

combined and saved to create new defcombined.pdf

To clarify I can do this no problem with existing combine pdf tools that acrobat has.  I want to automate the process so that I can set acrobat to compete the same job for a number of different folders one after the other without having to re-command it after each one.

[try67]

Yes, it can be done using an Action and a script. I've developed a tool that does just that: Custom-made Adobe Scripts: Acrobat -- Batch Combine All PDF Files in a Folder

But Acrobat is quite limited in the number of files it can process in an Action and if you have hundreds of files it might crash or get frozen halfway through the process. That's why I also developed a standalone application that does pretty much the same thing, only much more robustly: Custom-made Adobe Scripts: Batch Combine All PDF Files In Folders

[robb79229832]

Does the standalone offer the option to set number of pages to combine.  IE: I have a 200 page document but only want to combine the first three into a single document.

[try67]

It's certainly something I could implement. Please contact me privately (try6767 at gmail.com) to discuss it further.