Software To Split Pdf Documents

[Rachelle Kun]

Afteryou select pages and set up separator lines, click Save. Acrobat saves the split PDFs in an Adobe cloud storage folder within your Acrobat account. You can rename, download, or share the new PDFs with others.

If you need to do more with PDFs beyond splitting files, you can try Adobe Acrobat Pro for Mac or Windows for free for seven days. The Acrobat PDF editor tools let you edit PDFs, merge PDFs, reorder individual pages, extract pages, delete pages, rotate PDF pages, reduce file size, set passwords and permissions, and add bookmarks. You can also convert images like PNGs or JPGs and convert PDFs to and from Microsoft Word, PowerPoint (PPT), and Excel.

I have Dropbox Plus on my desktop PC. It was initially set up to backup/sync my Documents folder (with about 40 subfolders), which it did by moving the Users\User\Documents folder to Dropbox\PC leaving a "Documents" shortcut in the original location. This appeared to work okay.

A week ago I started getting pestered by Dropbox to switch to Dropbox Backup. I clicked OK. Big mistake. Dropbox Backup then recreated a Users\User\Documents folder in the original standard "Documents" location, moved about half of the subfolders to it from Dropbox\PC\Documents. Now I have half my Documents under the Dropbox folder and the other half under the Documents folder in its original location. There is no obvious rationale as to which subfolders it moved, not alphabetical, etc. Half my subfolders are being backed up/synced in the Dropbox folder and the "moved" half being backed up (not synced) under Users\User\Documents. I expected that Dropbox Backup would just leave the existing backup/sync setup alone and allow me to choose what folders to just backup.

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Too late. The Dropbox Backup backup (of the folders under User\User\Documents) hadn't finished after 2 days, so I stopped it. I manually moved the remaining folders from Dropbox\PC\Documents back under Users\User\Documents and now Dropbox Backup is halfway through its current backup.

Also, Dropbox Backup initially created a backup called "PC". I modified that backup to NOT backup Pictures. Dropbox Backup changed the name "PC" to PC(1) for some reason. And, with this latest backup attempt of my complete Users\User\Documents folder, it named the backup "PC(2)" which I renamed back to "PC". Why the backup name changes? I haven't checked online yet to see if I have multiple backups.

Forgive me, but things are getting sidetracked here by me bringing up more than one issue. The main issue is why did Dropbox Backup split the Documents folder? Is it looking at what subfolders/files had been synced to other devices and using that to decide that "this needs sync, that needs backup?" As I said, I expected that Backup would have left any existing syncing alone. So, any ideas on what happened here?

Hi @gmaccrim, it sounds like the backup was in the process of migrating to the new location, and something might've affected the move, hence the delay you experienced. As to what that was, we wouldn't be able to tell now.

I did not experience a "delay." The migration, if that's what it can be called, of Documents from Dropbox Sync to Dropbox Backup did not complete after at least 2 days. After no obvious activity to continue the migration of the subfolders left in the Dropbox Sync folder to Backup after 2 days, I moved the rest of the folders out of the Dropbox folder to the (recently recreated) standard Users\User\Documents folder. That standard Documents folder used to be a Windows shortcut under Users\User when Dropbox "Sync" originally moved it into the Dropbox folder.

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Once identified, I'll need a way of identifying those pages that are to be split and then create those new documents. The document creation bit is OK as I've done this with the comma separated list approach for another project. But in this case, the comma separated list is a bit messy in my opinion. It would be easier for the user to stamp those pages that related to the respective Claim Years.

If Stamps are used, am I forced down the SDK route to identify the page numbers that were stamped? I know I can search for documents based on Stamp Name (Claim Year), but I'm not sure the Workflow Designer returns the page numbers in any such search result.

If there really isn't a way to train Quick Field to do this then the long-hand option is to have Workflow do this with the LF SDK. I can't seem to get Quick Fields to OCR a stamp but the SDK will let you interrogate the annotations on a page and that information could be used to split the document.

I wonder if it's possible, does anyone know, to enlarge the thumbnail gallery? That could get me closer to what I'm trying to achieve. I see the thumbnail gallery pane can be enlarged, but not the images themselves from what I can see.

Looking at your ideas for splitting (applying stamps or listing the pages to be split in a field), both of these require that the user look through the document and identify where the splits need to happen before performing some action.

How about if the action they perform was the actual split itself? Within Web Access you can select a group of pages, right click them, and select New Document to extract them and plonk them into a new document of their own:

This sounds like the exact thing that Laserfiche Quick Fields is designed for. The document splitting could be achieved through document identification of some sort if it was a standard form type or had some identification markings, barcodes or indeed recognition stamps.

Cheers for the response Chris. There is nothing up front at scan stage that would be useful for helping identify the page type. We are talking a mixed bag of documents here. The document in Laserfiche being the container and the work to make sense of them and split them out being done in Laserfiche.

However, without some sort of identifier this wouldn't be possible to any system, as all decisions are based on rules that need to be evaluated. (Even as a human beings we apply our own logic rules when recognizing documents without even realizing )

Quick Fields is the Laserfiche product geared towards document/form recognition and would be best placed to handle this type of activity (and give you the most flexibility). Having said that there are of course other 3rd party document recognition tools out there which may be able to do something more specific (Ezescan etc.) that Quick Fields might not cater for. I guess the key here is to establish what rules need to be applied to the document recognition process and decide which product will be best placed to evaluate these rules.

You can use File > Send > Create Master Document. In the save dialog is a drop-down-list to determine, where the document is split, for example at outline level 1. Using this setting, you will get several documents, each containing one chapter. If you only want this chapter-files, you can throw away the .odm file. But a master document with its child documents might be a general solution for your use case.

> 1. Vertical split for document windows. Vertically splitting a text document and having two views of it side-by-side just feels more natural than splitting horizontally. In some of the complex programs I'm writing this comes up a lot, i.e. when I need to look back at helper functions while I'm composing another function that depends on them, and vice versa. Given the geometry of most computer screens (width greater than height), such arrangements are also more space efficient.

Precondition: the document you want to split is open and is the front document in the front window.1. View -> Open in Additional Window

2. Scroll to where you want to be

3 Reposition windows as required

> 2. Allowing separate documents to be viewed within the split panes of a document window, i.e. when doing project work. Yes, I know I can open a document in a separate window and then move it off to the side or "Arrange" windows (relevant to request #1 also), but that's a bit more clumsy.

The process above can be easily modified to work for different documents. It's not exactly the same as vertical scrolling in the same window but it may get you through to the day vertical scrolling is implemented (assuming it is some day).You might also find Window -> Synchro Scrolling to be interesting...Ted Stresen-Reuter

I agree. Did either you or the OP send this request to Barebones support?[See the bottom of every message on this list:

If you have a feature request or would like to report a

problem, please email "sup...@barebones.com" rather than

posting to the group.

]Thanks.

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