splitting pdf at various pages and page ranges

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March 28, 2020
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Hello - I need to split a 7500 page pdf into multiple files based on single and ranges of pages, e.g., 1829-1842, 1843-1846, 1935, 1998, 2014, 4492, 5605, etc...

Is there a way to do this without manually selecting all of the pages? I tried "split" tool; however, it is limited to # of pages, file size, or bookmarks (document doesnt have bookmarks). I also tried the "extract" tool; however, it pulls them out as individual pages in seperate files for each page, or as one pdf with those pages.

I feel like there should be a way to do this all at once, as it would seem like something that would come up often.

Thanks!

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Thom Parker

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We're now on the second page of posts 😉

Did you see Try67's reply? He has a good idea, have the person go through the PDF and add sticky notes at the split points.

I have a better idea. If the split points are also the places with the titles, then use the rectangle markup to encircle the title text. This text will then be copied into the comment box for the rectangle. This can be picked up by a scirpt that extracts the pages into the appropieately named PDF.

This strategy still takes some manual work, but should save a lot of time.

Thom Parker - Software Developer at PDFScriptingUse the Acrobat JavaScript Reference early and often

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michaelw53558463Author

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Hi, yes thank you for the responsivness and willingness to help! However, the titles are not actually on the pages. There is a lot more I think we could be doing with adobe and I plan on exploring that in the future.