How to manage my pdf files?

Break out multipage PDF into seperate files.

• What is the easiest and/or most automated way to take a multi page PDF and break it into separate PDF files after visually inspecting what pages in the multi-page PDF are to create each new file? We have scanned several documents in as multi-page DPF's now we are looking to break some of the files apart into separate files based upon visual inspection of the PDF. I had seen in the past other software that this was done with a 30% view of the PDF index and the user visually inspects the page or pages to create the new PDF. Once selected the user then selects a file name or naming pattern for the file to save the new document as, then the user moves to the next pages to re-do the same process. We do have acrobat Pro 7.0 to accomplish this task. Any other software recommendations that are low in cost (200.00 or less for the software) would also be appreciated.

• Answer:

  Hi bonesbrigade01-ga, There are multiple tools that can split a single PDF into several smaller PDF files. None require Adobe Acrobat to perform their advertised functions. 1. PDF Split-Merge - $29.90 per user license URL: http://www.verypdf.com/pdfpg/index.html Description: "PDF Split-Merge is a stand-alone application that can be used to split, merge, and manage your PDF files, PDF Split- Merge is offered as an easy to use GUI (Graphical User Interface) application, and a command line application. PDF Split-Merge is used to split files by pages, you can split the file into single pages or save every a few pages as a new file, it also can be used to merge multiple PDF files or selected pages from one or more files into a PDF file, preservation of original links, and form fields." 2. A-PDF Split - $27 per user license URL: http://www.a-pdf.com/split/ Description: "A-PDF Split is a unique utility designed to split your PDF file. The program basically takes a large PDF file and extracts pieces of it based on the range selected by the user. The extracted pieces will be stored into a new file or files (if more than one piece extracted)." 3. ARTS PDF Split & Merge - $149 per user license URL: http://www.artspdf.com/arts_split_and_merge.asp Description: "The split functionality lets you split one or more PDF files based on page groups, page ranges, bookmarks and page marks. The merge functionality lets you quickly sort and then combine a collection of PDF documents." Hopefully one of these will do the trick; they all have the basic ability to split PDFs but some include different features that you may also find useful at some point. If you have any questions about the information above please don't hesitate to post a clarification and I will try to respond promptly. Cheers, answerguru-ga