Splitting PDF into Single-Page Documents
- 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 1 - Open a PDF File
- Start the Adobe® Acrobat® application and open a PDF file using "File > Open..." from the main menu.
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- Step 2 - Open the "Split Document Settings" Dialog
- Select "Plug-Ins > Split Documents > Split Document..." from the main menu to open the "Split Document Settings" dialog.
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- 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.
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- Step 4 - Specify Output File Naming
- The AutoSplit™ allows naming output documents in the multiple different ways. For example, files can be named by extracting text from a specific page location or by text search.
- We are going to use an original page label to name each output single-page file. Click "Add..." button to specify the file naming scheme.
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- Check the "Page Label" option in the "Select What To Add To Output Filename" dialog. Click "Next>>".
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- Step 5 - Start Splitting
- Click "Browse..." and specify an output folder for the resulting files.
- Click "OK" to starting processing.
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- Click "OK" in the confirmation dialog to start splitting.
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- Step 6 - Inspect the Results
- Inspect the list of output files in the "AutoSplit Results" dialog. Click "Open Output Folder" to open an output folder.
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- The output folder contains 15 new PDF files extracted from the input document. Each document is named using the original page label. For example, page 10 is saved as 10.pdf and page 5 is saved as 5.pdf. If pages in the input document contain custom page labels such as xii or A-25, the corresponding files will be named accordingly (xii.pdf and A-25.pdf).
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