Philson wrote in message
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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


I tried acrobat7 but it won't work on win98.
I've got round it via this route
FoxitReader pdf reader to see whats there, where the index/cross reference
were.
pdf2text to convert the first 15 , 50 or whatever pages to text.
Unfortunately 2 pdf files were 1,500 pages long with the index at the end
so had to go away for 1/4 hour and then delete 1,470 small text files as you
cannot preset pages on the free pdf2text version
Then used AF5 file batch renamer to put some structure to the file names.
First CD done the other 8 don't have so many datasheets so should be
aeasier.
So I won't be throwing them out now they are usable.
No wonder someone was disposing of them at a radio rally for next to nothing
as useless before externally indexing

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