Splitting PDF Files into Single-Page Documents
AutoSplit plug-in for Adobe® Acrobat®
- Introduction
- The tutorial shows how to split a PDF document into separate single-page PDF documents using the AutoSplit™ plug-in for the Adobe® Acrobat®.
- We are going to extract each page from Document.pdf as a separate PDF file. The input document contains 15 pages, and therefore 15 PDF files will be created. Each output file is named with its original page label.
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- This operation is also available in the Action Wizard (Acrobat's batch processing tool) and can be used for automating of document processing workflows.
- Prerequisites
- You need a copy of the Adobe® Acrobat® along with the AutoSplit™ plug-in installed on your computer in order to use this tutorial. You can download trial versions of both the Adobe® Acrobat® and the AutoSplit™.
Step-by-Step Tutorial
- Step 1 - Open a PDF File
- Start Adobe® Acrobat® application and open a PDF file using “File > Open…” menu to open a PDF document that needs to be processed.
- Step 2 - Open “Split Document Settings” Menu
- Select “Plug-ins > Split Document…” from the main Acrobat® menu to open “Split Document Settings” dialog.
[⚡ How to locate Plugins menu ⚡]. - Step 3 - Select Splitting Method
- Select the "Equal size documents of" option in the "Split Method" list. Enter a number of pages per output document. For example, enter 1 to split into single-page documents.
- Step 4 - Specify Output File Naming
- The AutoSplit™ allows naming output documents in many different ways. For example, files can be named by extracting text from a specific page location or by text search.
- In this tutorial, we are going to use page labels to name each output single-page PDF file. Page label is an alias for a page in PDF documents. It can be any combination of characters and use different labeling scheme for different parts of the document. For example, page labels can be i, ii, iii, ix for one document section and A-001, A-002, A-003... for another. Page labels can be set in Page Thumbnails panel in Adobe Acrobat. Please see the following tutorial for details on how to create page labels.
- In our test document, we have the following page labels assigned to pages (A-1, A-2, A-3, A-4, A-5):
- Click "Add..." button to specify the file naming scheme.
- Select the "Page Label" option in the "Select What To Add To Output Filename" dialog. Click "Next>>".
- Step 5 - Select Output Folder
- Click "Browse..." and specify an output folder for the resulting files.
- Click "OK" to starting processing.
- Step 6 - Start Splitting
- Click "OK" in the confirmation dialog to start splitting.
- Step 7 - Inspect Output Files
- Inspect the list of output files in the "AutoSplit Results" dialog. Click "Open Output Folder" to open an output folder.
- The output folder contains new PDF files extracted from the input document - one page per file. Each document is named using the original page label. If pages in the input document contain custom page labels such as A-1, A-2, A-3..., the corresponding files will be named accordingly (A-1.pdf, A-2.pdf, A-3.pdf,...). If PDF document does not contain any custom page labels, then each output file will be named with a physcial page number: 1.pdf, 2.pdf, 3.pdf....
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