Splitting Adobe Acrobat files

Septus

I've got some rather large amounts of paper to be scanning for work, with a lot of different "subjects" involved. So far I've been individually scanning 3-5 pages at a time, changing the settings and naming them each time. Is there any way to scan 50 pages all at once, and then go into the acrobat file and split the file into multiples by page?

Ruckus

At work we use a program called A-PDF Merger.

SithDrummer

Document -> Extract Pages.

Check the box next to "delete pages after extracting", and then select the pages you want. They have to be consecutive, unfortunately; however, if you need to pull non-consecutive sections into a single file, make multiple extractions and then insert (Document -> Insert Pages) them all into an empty document, or into the first section of stuff you want.

Septus

Now I'm more confused, having tried to fiddle with it. I should have the full adobe acrobat installed here, but every time I try to launch "adobe acrobat" instead of the reader, the reader version is what gets launched, which doesn't give me the option to extract anything from the document.

SithDrummer

Got me there. I don't know about how to get around that.

localh77

Septus wrote:

Now I'm more confused, having tried to fiddle with it. I should have the full adobe acrobat installed here, but every time I try to launch "adobe acrobat" instead of the reader, the reader version is what gets launched, which doesn't give me the option to extract anything from the document.

I had the exact same problem at work, and it took me a while to figure out what was going on. It turns out that if you have any document open in reader (including in a browser), and then you open another, it'll automatically open in reader. Even if you specifically say "open with Acrobat," which is what I was doing.

I don't know if that's your problem, but it could be.