You should be able to do this directly with Acrobat. I don't know
about earlier versions but Acrobat v7 (full utilty not just the
reader), has batch facilities that will achieve your objective.
Drop down the Advanced menu, select Batch Processing then 'Print 1st
page of all'. You can then select the input folder, another folder as
the output and whether you want it printed in RTF, text or as a jpeg.



I've pdf2text reader , would it be possible to sequentially access this
reader within a Visual Basic or Word macro to convert the first page/ line/s
of each pdf and save to file/s