Merge by Name

Question

hello all,I have scoured the internet trying to figure out how to quickly merge files with the same unique identifier. I have 5000 files and there files are named As follows:5772000001_15772000001_25772000001_35772000002_15772000002_21. Is there a way to combined the files by unique identifier? Combined file 1 would have the three files from above that have this prefix (5772000001) and the two files that have the prefix (57720000012)2. Is there a way to saved the combined files to a folder that has that same prefix?Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thom Parker · Accepted Answer

Yes, if you know the name and location of the files you can write a short script to loop through the names and insert the files into a merged file.

Something like:

var oMergeDoc = new Doc();

for(...files...)

oMergeDoc.insertPages(oMergeDoc.numPages-1, <Path to File>);

Thom Parker · Answer

This is a tricky one. If you knew the file names and folder ahead of time you could do this with an automation script.

But a more general solution would be to use a script in an Action. An Action script is run each time a new file is loaded into the Action. The script doesn't know if it's the first or the last file so the first thing it needs to do is look for an already open merge file, if this file does not exist it creates a new one page PDF. If the merge PDF does exist, then it inserts the new file into the merge PDF. As well as creating the Merge PDF, the script would also need to collect information from the user about the target file names. And there is an ordering issue. The files are not loaded into the Action in any predicable order. So if ordering is needed, there has to be some way to sort the files for inserting.

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