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How to split a PDF into multiple 3 page documents

Hi All

I have a scanned document that is in the order of 124 pages and I want to split it into individual 3 page files starting at page 1. So first file would contain Pages 1-3 Second 4-6 etc etc. I have Adobe Acrobat Professional and the entire CS3 suite, anyone know how to do this?

I would prefer some sort of batching solution I.E I just press a button and it does it all.

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JBart_17

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jmcmillen

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So there is no way to do it in Acrobat itself?

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jmcmillen

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Damn. Thanks for your response. It turns out that I figured out how to do this with my scanner, I'm lucky enough that the scanner has the functionality to split the scan into individual PDF's of 3 pages.

scrathcyboy

It's a day to celebrate when a scanner is smarter than Adobe. Glad you solved it.

jif101

After finding PDF Content Split extremely difficult to use (there was no way to do a straight split on pages without specifying a delimiter or inserting bookmarks), I FINALLY found that there is a split built into Acrobat CS3. Open the Pages tab and under Options you'll see "Extract Pages..." There's a very easy option to extract each page as its own file (which is what I needed), and you can extract a range of pages into its own file as well. In the OP's situation, it might require a bit of time to chunk things out in 3-page groupings.

Also, Acrobat doesn't allow you to specify file names on the export.