PDF File Manipulation
 

Is there any way on earth to remove a page from a multi-page PDF document?

For example, I want to delete a page from a 43-page PDF personnel file.

I'm pretty darn sure it cannot be done. I've been trying, even though I knew it was a lost cause before I started.

Do you have Adobe Standard Edition or just the free download from the internet?

My first idea was to Select All, then copy the PDF file onto a Word doc. Then delete the page from the Word doc, then save the Word doc back as a PDF file. But Adobe won't let me Select All. It only selects one page of the doc at a time.

Acrobat 4.x, PDF Version 1.3

This is a company computer.

No that would be an export of the document to save as a word file and word files don't always transfer back so well, but you can try. You should have an export tab in your toolbar and from there export it to word. But I have a full blown version of Adobe, so not sure if its just the free one.......

This may be dumb of me to suggest, but can you print it out, remove the page and scan it back in?

The free one is just Adobe Reader..........Acrobat is the full version.

You should be able to click on the pages in a vertical tool bar to the left, then pick the page you want to delete and right mouse button and pick "delete".

Yep that worked for me and I have Acrobat. (Well I had to do Edit-Delete) my right clicker didn't pull up an option to delete.

Cool......... http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/smile.png

Yes, but we need to remove old I-9 forms from hundreds of old, scanned files, so I'm trying to keep this project as labor-free as possible. If we have to, though, that's what we'll have to do.

If you have the full version under the "document" tab there is an option to choose "delete pages".

If you don't have that.....u r screwed! http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/smile.png

BG's idea would work though. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ilies/wink.png

print it, remove the page, then scan it back into a pdf file.

pure genius!!! http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...milies/omg.gif

the lesson here is to have a scalable solution for information storage. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/smile.png Single document scans linked in a database, for example.

We're talking about approx 300 PDF files, some containing over 100 documents, so my OP was trying to avoid having to do that. And it appears that Acrobat Pro 9 is my solution. Yippee!

Cheaper solution:

http://www.cutepdf.com/products/cutepdf/Pro.asp

Another option is PDF-Split and Merge. It is an opensource program that is useful for removing pages from a PDF or merging two PDF's together. It doesn't so much else.

http://www.pdfsam.org

yeah, i never even looked into open source stuff. there is a bunch.

speaking of which....check out this site:

www.giveawayoftheday.com