• Do you need to split PDF document into multiple files?
• Merge multiple PDF files into a single document?
• Break a PDF document into pieces based on bookmarks?
• Extract ranges of pages into multiple PDF documents?
• Split documents at pages matching a specific text pattern?
• Extract pages that contain specific keywords or text patterns?
• Split PDF document at blank pages?
• Find and extract pages that contain specific PDF elements as forms, images and etc?
• Apply security settings and watermarks to the output PDF files?
• Update links and bookmarks in the output to point to correct locations?
• Extract embedded files (attachments) from PDF Packages and documents?
• Automatically distribute output files via email?
• Process multiple PDF documents using Acrobat's batch sequences?
• Do you want software that works in familiar Adobe Acrobat® environment?

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• Splitting PDF documents into multiple
• Merging multiple PDF documents into one
• Extracting file attachments from PDF packages and files
• Automatically name output files
• Automatically secure and password protect output files
• Email output documents
• Batch processing support
• IMPORTANT: Product Levels - Basic and Pro
• Trial Version Availability
• System Requirements

Equal Page Count

Split PDF document into files containing equal number of pages per file.

Split By Page Ranges

Split PDF document based on manually defined page ranges with multitude of available options such as odd/even pages, reverse order, page ranges from individual bookmarks and etc. This method provides a lot of flexibility and allows of mixing different page extraction methods, from manually defined page ranges to page extraction by text and content.

Split By Bookmarks

Split PDF document based on specified level of bookmark hierarchy, every bookmark section is extracted in a separate document and automatically named using bookmark title. In few seconds you getting a set of documents that logically split original file and every one of them even has a readable name! AutoSplit™ plug-in can automatically create folders on disk to mirror hierarchical structure of bookmark trees. All output documents are instantly organized saving you many hours of work. HTML index file can be automatically generated to provide easy file navigation.

Split At Pages With Matching Text

Split large PDF documents that contain variable lengths groups of pages that need to be split into separate files. Reports, invoices, billing statements can be efficiently processed with this splitting method. Input document is first searched for pages that contain user specified text pattern. Document is split into multiple files at the locations of those pages. Pages that contain matching text become first pages in the corresponding output documents. Common approach is to match text that is present on the first page of every group of related pages (such as invoice or report). Text search can be limited to a specific area on the page to eliminate unwanted text matches. This processing method is available in AutoSplit Pro™ package only.

Split At Pages Where Text Changes

Split PDF files at pages where text within a user-specified area on the page is changes. Example: input PDF document of 11 pages has 3 separate invoices, the goal is to split each invoice into a separate file. Each invoice may have more than one page and a number of pages per invoice is not known in advance. First page (or every page) of each invoice contains an invoice number in the upper-right corner and this number is always located within the same area. This document can be easily splitted using "Pages where text changes" mode by selecting a location where invoice number is located. The plug-in will search all pages of the document and split at pages where invoice number changes. All pages from the "change" page and up to (but not including) the next detected invoice number will be included into a separate output file. This processing method is available in AutoSplit Pro™ package only.

Split At Pages Where Text Pattern Changes

Split PDF files at pages where a specific text pattern is changing. The plug-in searches all pages of the document for occurence of the user-specified text pattern (regular expression syntax is used to define a pattern). If a page is found with a matching text that is different from a previous match, then a document is split at this page. All pages from the detected page and up to (but not including) the next detected page will be included into a separate output file. This processing method is available in AutoSplit Pro™ package only.

Split By Blank Pages

Split PDF document into multiple files at blank pages that serve as document separators. Every range of pages between blanks will be saved into separate PDF document. Blank pages will not be included into output documents. Pages should contain no PDF elements in order to be recognized as blank ones. You can even split at blank pages that are scanned images (in this case page should contain only single image of the scanned blank page). This powerful feature allows processing of batches of scanned fax pages. User can adjust sensitivity of the algorithm to process images that contain some amount of noise. This processing method is available in AutoSplit Pro™ package only.

Extract Pages by Text Search

Automatically find and extract pages that match keywords or text patterns. Use simple text queries or powerful regular expressions. Extract single pages, page sets or page ranges that match your search criteria. This method is used when it's necessary extract pages that share common characteristics and group them into a single file (for example, reports submitted by a specific person). Pages can be located anywhere in the input document and do not have to be in continuous page range. This approach is preferable when number of output documents (and text patterns) is known in advance and pages need to be grouped based on a search criteria. The plug-in searches page text and text content of all annotations types including annotations created with "Typewriter" or "Text Box" tools.

Split by Content

Automatically find and extract pages that contain specific PDF elements such as forms, images, links, comments, notes, rubber stamps, highlighting, JavaScript code, transparency effects, page rotation and many others. 18 different options are available.

Batch Processing Support

Create your own batch sequences for processing multiple documents at once. Supports Acrobat's standard batch processing framework. Batch processing support is available in AutoSplit Pro™ package only. Three batch commands are installed by the plug-in: "Split Document", "Merge Documents" and "Extract Embedded Files".

Launch From Command Line

It's also possible to launch AutoSplit batch sequence from outside of Adobe® Acrobat®. AutoSplit can be started from a command line or a operating system batch file (more details).  This option is available in AutoSplit Pro™ package only. You can also use AutoBatch plug-in if you need more flexibility in executing Acrobat batch sequences from a command prompt.

Page Ranges From Bookmarks

Interactively define page ranges from any bookmark in the document.

Save Settings for Future Reuse

Save and reuse complex document splitting profiles. All application options can be saved into a file for future reuse.

Automatically generated HTML index file

AutoSplit™ plug-in automatically generates HTML index file that lists all output documents and links to their locations on disk. Document index is useful when splitting a large PDF file into smaller ones for faster web access. Put this index file on your web site along with PDF documents to provide fast and convenient access to large document collections.

Password Protecting Output PDF documents

All documents can be optionally automatically secured with a password. Users will be prompted to enter a password when trying to open such documents.

Restrict Document Access

Security options for allowing editing, printing, copying to clipboard and editing text notes can be applied to output documents. You can control level of access to the document by restricting certain operations that can be performed on the files. Document editing and printing permissions can be also password protected.

Transfer bookmarks

Transfer bookmarks to output PDF documents. Every output document can receive an exact copy of bookmark tree from the original document. The biggest surprise is that every bookmark still points to the right location!

Update links

Update links in output PDF documents to point to correct locations. After splitting a document many links from source document can end up in different documents. Software can automatically adjust update links, so they continue to point to correct location in the same or different document. The plug-in adjusts page navigation actions for link annotations and form elements such as buttons.

Fast network access

Linearize output PDF documents for fast Web or network access. This can greatly improve document loading time if you plan to share documents on the Web or local network.

Add Watermarks

Add transparent watermarks to every output page (available only for "Split by Manual Page Ranges" method). Transparency level can be adjusted from 0 to 100%.

Remove Page Labels

Automatically remove page labels in output PDF documents.

Open output documents

Optionally automatically open all output files in Adobe Acrobat for inspection.

New! Email Output Documents

Automatically distribute output documents to designated email recipients using custom email options.  Each output document can be optionally emailed as a file attachment to a number of email recipients (including "CC" and "BCC" options). Documents are emailed via a default MAPI-enabled email application that is installed on the user's computer. All popular email clients such as MS Outlook or Thunderbird do provide this functionality. The ability to email files is only available in a "page ranges" splitting mode when a number and content of output documents is known in advance.

Overwrite Document Properties

The plug-in provides functionality to specify custom values for the following document properties: "Title", "Author", "Subject", and "Keywords". If no custom values are specified, then the software will transfer these properties from the input document. The ability to specify custom properties is only available in a "page ranges" splitting mode when a number and content of output documents is known in advance.

Unique Output File Name

AutoSplit creates a unique names for output documents based on the following schema: Name Prefix + Base File Name + Automatic Suffix.

Output Folder

Output folder location can be defined for all output documents.

Name Prefix

Many different options are available: original input file name, current date, document title, document author, document creation date. Prefix is automatically added in front of generated file name.

Base File Name

Specify base filename (all output file names will start with it). This custom text will be added to the name prefix.

Name Suffix

Specify suffix to automatically append to the filename. It can be either autoincrementing number or letter, output page range, page label, text from a document (specified either by position on the first page of each output document or by a text search pattern). AutoSplit™ will automatically increment numbers and letters to create unique file names.

Text From Document (By Location)

It's possible to extract text from each output document and use it as a part of the filename. The plug-in uses a user-specified area on the first page of each output document to retrieve text and uses it as a filename suffix.

Text From Document (By Text Search)

The software can use a search pattern (utilizing a regular expression syntax) to look for a specific text on the first page of each output document and use it as a filename suffix. This is a very powerful method for naming output documents such as invoices, account statements and reports.

Custom File Names

Custom file names can be used for manual page ranges method. This is because a number of output files is known in advance. Custom file names can be combined with name prefix and base filename as well.

Create Folders

AutoSplit can create folders on disk that mirror bookmark tree structure of the input document. This option is useful for documents with complex bookmark structures and when a better file organization is desired. All output documents are instantly organized into appropriate folders. Bookmark names are used for naming disk folders resulting in human readable file structure. This option is available only when splitting by bookmarks.

Merge Multiple PDF Documents Into One

Easily merge multiple PDF documents into a single one. All pages or just a selected subset of pages (page range, odd/even pages) are copied from each input document. The first page from each document is automatically bookmarked with a file name or a custom user-specified text. (View a screenshot of the document merging dialog).

Append Pages

Pages from multiple input documents are sequentially copied (appended) into a new output document. User can optionally specify a range of pages to use from each input document.

Interleave Pages

Pages from multiple input documents are sequentially interleaved and copied into a new output document. Software proceeds as follows: first N pages from first document are copied to the output, and then N pages from the second document are copied and so on. This process is repeated until all pages are processed. For example, if document A (200 pages long) is interleaved (every 2 pages) with document B (2 pages long) then software will repeat pages from document B as many times as necessary to complete this task. The output document will look like the following:

Pages 1-2 from document A
Pages 1-2 from document B
Pages 3-4 from document A
Pages 1-2 from document B
Pages 5-6 from document A
....
Pages 199-200 from document A
Pages 1-2 from document B
 

User can optionally specify a range of pages to use from each input document and number of pages to interleave from each document.  

Reverse Page Order

Page order of any input document can be optionally reversed during the merge process. For example, after scanning 10 pages of two-sided document you may end-up with two different PDF files: one for odd (1,3,5,...) and one for even pages (10,8,6,...). However, the “even-pages” document has a reverse page order. These two documents can be merged into a single PDF file while page order of the “even-pages” document is reversed on the fly creating output document with correct page order (1,2,3...).

Merge Odd/Even Pages

Software allows optional selection of a page subset (all pages, even pages only, odd pages only) for each input document. For example, you can merge odd pages from one document with even pages from another.

Merge All Files in a Folder

Folders can be used as input for document merging procedure. All PDF documents from a folder will be merged including content of the subfolders (optionally). Files can be sorted alphabetically before merging. Blank page can be optionally added to the end of any input document that has an odd number of pages. This feature ensures that first page of each input document will start on the even page in the output document.

Transfer Bookmarks and Links

The plug-in transfers bookmarks from input documents and updates links to make them pointing to correct pages in the merged document.  

Sort Input Files

The merging order of input documents can changed by alphabetically sorting file names.

Import / Export of Document Names

The plug-in provides powerful import and export capabilities from a comma-delimited text file. Save time by importing an existing document lists from an existing spreadsheet or a database. Use Excel or any other software of your choice to create a list of documents to merge and then easily import it into AutoSplit. Optional page ranges and custom bookmark titles can be specified as well. (View a sample of the import/export file format).

Save Settings for Future Reuse

Save and reuse complex document merging settings to save time and increase productivity. All application options including input document names can be saved into a file for future reuse.

Extract All Embedded Files

Extract all embedded files from one or more PDF documents simultaneously. The plug-in can process regular PDF files as well as PDF portfolios (introduced in Acrobat 8). All embedded content is saved into a user-specified folder. The HTML (with hyperlinks to extracted files) and CSV report files are generated automatically and include the following metadata: file name, description, size in bytes, creation and modification date/time.    The plug-in adds "Extract Embedded Files" command to the Adobe Acrobat batch processing framework (available in Adobe® Acrobat® Professional).  

Export Embedded Files Metadata

The plug-in allows exporting embedded files metadata for many files at once without extracting any embedded content. The software supports two formats that can be easily imported into any spreadsheet application: text (CSV) and MS Excel XML files. Metadata includes any standard or custom fields such as file name, description, size in bytes, creation and modification date/time. If a PDF portfolio was created by Microsoft Outlook ("Convert To Adobe PDF" menu) email application, then each file might have the following metadata fields (specific to email): "Subject", "From", "To", "Cc", "Attachments", "Folder", "Received", "Importance", "Sensitivity" and etc.

AutoSplit™

Basic package that contains most of the features. Split PDF documents into multiple files by bookmarks, page count, page ranges and content. Extract pages that match text patterns or contain specific elements such as forms, images and links. Apply security settings and watermarks to the output. Merge documents by appending or interleaving pages from multiple PDF documents. Basic package does not support "split by separators" (bank page or text) and batch processing.

AutoSplit Pro™

This is advanced version of the software. Comes with all features of AutoSplit plus with support for Acrobat's batch processing framework and "split by separator" functionality. Split by separator mode supports PDF document splitting at blank pages or at pages that match a text pattern.

Trial Versions

Fully featured 30-days trial version is available for product evaluation. Trial version is designed to provide full access to software functionality, but is not intended to be used for production work. "DEMO" watermark is added to each output page created with a trial version. Both AutoSplit and AutoSplit Pro plug-ins can be downloaded for evaluation.

Platforms:

 Microsoft® Windows Vista/XP/2003/2000

Software:

Full version of Adobe® Acrobat® software is required (versions 5, 6, 7, 8, 9). This software will not work with free Adobe Acrobat® Reader®. Batch processing functionality requires presence of Adobe® Acrobat Professional® (for versions 6, 7, 8, 9).
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