Automatically split PDF into separate pages

Split PDF into separate pages

In a previous post I showed how to add a header page to a PDF using Pdftk. This example uses the same program to split a PDF into separate pages. See the previous post for Pdftk download info.

The previous post only mentioned WatchDirectory, but you can obviously also use WatchFTP's Batch File Action to do the same thing.

The Batch Script

Use the following batch script to let Pdftk automatically split the newly detected PDF.

If you want to use this script with WatchFTP, to automatically split downloaded PDF's into separate pages, you need to change some variable names in the script.
All variables that start with WD_ must be changed to WF_, for example %WD_REASON% in the script below must be changed to %WF_REASON%.

(The script does not show properly in some blog-readers, please copy it from the original post)

rem Automatically split PDF files into separate pages rem where is pdftk? SET PD=C:\Bin\pdftk\pdftk.exe rem where should we store the newly created pdf-pages? SET OUTDIR=C:\data\Out rem check if we are called by WD with a new PDF, ignore other files IF "%WD_FILE_E%" NEQ "PDF" GOTO :EOF "%PD%" "%WD_FILE%" burst output "%OUTDIR%\%WD_FILE_B%_%%d.pdf" rem if you want to delete the original pdf, rem remove the "REM" on the next line REM del "%WD_FILE%"

Make sure to properly configure the script in the first few lines (the variables PD and OUTDIR). You probably want to make sure the OUTDIR variable is not set to the directory your WatchDirectory task is monitoring. If it *is* set to that directory, WatchDirectory will call your script again (and again) for the split pages.