Separating a pdf into cover and text files

[gregn92182887]

I'm hoping someone could help me create a script that would extract the first two and the last two pages of a document and then save the new four page document with _cov appended.

Step 2 would save what is remaining of the origianl documet with _text appended to the filename.

So from one document I would end up with two files (filename_cov.pdf) and (filename_text.pdf)

I work in a print shop and we receive single files for books. Because the print on different stocks I have been manually separating the covers from the text portion before imposing for print. Thanks in advance to anyone willing to help.

[try67]

This can be done with a custom-made script, but you would need to run it from a folder-level script or from an Action.

What version of Acrobat do you have?

[gregn92182887]

Thanks try677, I am running the latest version of Acrobat DC Pro. We have an adobe creative cloud subscription and I have run all the current updates.

[gregn92182887]

Seems to me an action would be ideal. Running it would effect the file currently open?

[try67]

Yes, although you could also run it on multiple files.

Basically, I would first extract the middle pages (using extractPages), save them as the "_text" file (using saveAs), then delete them from the original file (using deletePages) and save it as the "_cov" file.

If you're interested I could write this script for you for a small fee. You can contact me privately via [try6767 at gmail.com] to discuss it further.