How to make an 'Action' delete the original file (after reducing its size) and to output logs?

[moh58719361]

My organisation keeps thousands of PDFs (mostly scanned forms, documents etc.), many of which have ridiculously large file sizes due to incorrect scan settings. I'm looking for a way to automate the task of reducing the file sizes while indicating that the file's size was reduced in case something goes wrong.

Hence, I'm trying to set up a custom Action in Acrobat Pro XI to:

1. Reduce PDF file sizes in a directory
   • Can be done very easily: Reduce PDF file size on several pdf automatically ()
2. Delete the original PDFs
   • Acrobat allows you to overwrite the original PDFs (by keeping the original file name), however, I need to insert some text in the filename in order to indicate that it was reduced

• If text is inserted into the file name, both the original and the reduced files are retained in the directory

     3. Output logs for what was done

• Whether or not the file size was successfully reduced
• Whether the file was skipped (for whatever reason)
• Whether the original file was deleted
• Date and time of when the Action started on the PDF (not essential)
• Amount of time it took for the Action to execute on the PDF (not essential)

Is there way to accomplish tasks 2 and 3 via Javascript within the Action? This will be running on a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine if it makes any difference. Any help would be much appreciated.

[Bernd Alheit]

You can't delete the original document.

[moh58719361]

Bernd Alheit​ Thanks for your reply. I'll probably have to delete the originals using a PowerShell script then.

How about outputting the logs I've mentioned? Would that be possible?