Splitting PDF Files into Single-Page Documents

AutoSplit plug-in for Adobe® Acrobat®

Introduction
The tutorial shows how to split a PDF document into separate single-page PDF documents using the AutoSplit™ plug-in for the Adobe® Acrobat®.
We are going to extract each page from Document.pdf as a separate PDF file. The input document contains 15 pages, and therefore 15 PDF files will be created. Each output file is named with its original page label.
Splitting PDF into single-page documents
This operation is also available in the Action Wizard (Acrobat's batch processing tool) and can be used for automating of document processing workflows.
Prerequisites
You need a copy of the Adobe® Acrobat® along with the AutoSplit™ plug-in installed on your computer in order to use this tutorial. You can download trial versions of both the Adobe® Acrobat® and the AutoSplit™.

Step-by-Step Tutorial

Step 1 - Open a PDF File
Start Adobe® Acrobat® application and open a PDF file using “File > Open…” menu to open a PDF document that needs to be processed.
Step 2 - Open “Split Document Settings” Menu
Select “Plug-ins > Split Document…” from the main Acrobat® menu to open “Split Document Settings” dialog.
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Step 3 - Select Splitting Method
Select the "Equal size documents of" option in the "Split Method" list. Enter a number of pages per output document. For example, enter 1 to split into single-page documents.
Select split method - Equal size documents
Step 4 - Specify Output File Naming
The AutoSplit™ allows naming output documents in many different ways. For example, files can be named by extracting text from a specific page location or by text search.
In this tutorial, we are going to use page labels to name each output single-page PDF file. Page label is an alias for a page in PDF documents. It can be any combination of characters and use different labeling scheme for different parts of the document. For example, page labels can be i, ii, iii, ix for one document section and A-001, A-002, A-003... for another. Page labels can be set in Page Thumbnails panel in Adobe Acrobat. Please see the following tutorial for details on how to create page labels.
In our test document, we have the following page labels assigned to pages (A-1, A-2, A-3, A-4, A-5):
Page labels assigned in the current PDF document
Click "Add..." button to specify the file naming scheme.
Specify file naming
Select the "Page Label" option in the "Select What To Add To Output Filename" dialog. Click "Next>>".
Select Page Label option
Step 5 - Select Output Folder
Click "Browse..." and specify an output folder for the resulting files.
Click "OK" to starting processing.
Specify output folder
Step 6 - Start Splitting
Click "OK" in the confirmation dialog to start splitting.
Confirm splitting by pressing OK button
Step 7 - Inspect Output Files
Inspect the list of output files in the "AutoSplit Results" dialog. Click "Open Output Folder" to open an output folder.
Inspect the results
The output folder contains new PDF files extracted from the input document - one page per file. Each document is named using the original page label. If pages in the input document contain custom page labels such as A-1, A-2, A-3..., the corresponding files will be named accordingly (A-1.pdf, A-2.pdf, A-3.pdf,...). If PDF document does not contain any custom page labels, then each output file will be named with a physcial page number: 1.pdf, 2.pdf, 3.pdf....
The software extracts every page from PDF into separate single-page PDF files
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