Extract first page from multiple pdfs

Posted by Tim Alexander on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Tim Alexander
Published on 2010-11-05T12:19:58Z Indexed on 2012/03/26 23:32 UTC
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Have got about 500 PDFs to go through and extract the first page of. They then need to go through some time consuming conversion process so was hoping to try and save some time by have a batch process to extract just the first page from the 500 pdfs and place it in a new pdf. Have had a poke around Acrobat but can find no real method of doing this for multiple files. Does anyone know any other programs or methods that this could be achieved? Free and open source are obviously more favourable :)

EDIT: Have actually had some success using GhostScript to extract just one page. Am now looking at how to batch that and take the list of files and use those.

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