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Lets say I have 100 PDFs in one folder1 (filename: 1, 2,3,4..) and another 100 PDF in another folder2 (Filename: 1,2,3,4...). Now I want to combine PDF1 in folder1 with PDF1 in folder2 and so on till pdf100 from folder1 is combined with pdf100 in folder2.
The PDF in folder 1 shoudl be placed in the first page of the pdf1 in folder2. (this applies for all the pdf)
How can this be implemented? Can we use data merge? Will Photoshop be useful or indesign or acrobat reader?
You can do this, but your asking on wrong forum. Youd much more likely get a good answer on superuser than here. Merging PDF files isn't exactly a magic science.
Tools that would come handy:
Currently im writing this over on my phone and I'm a bit low on tools. So I'm going to show how to do this with python and pyPdf (because all I have on my phone is bash, tcsh, zsh and python. Aside the browser which implements javaScript).
#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from pyPdf import PdfFileWriter, PdfFileReader
for i in range(1,101):
output = PdfFileWriter()
outputStream = file("output%d.pdf"%i, "wb")
for item in [r"folder1\file%d.pdf"%i,r"folder2\file%d.pdf"%i]:
fp = file(item,'rb')
input = PdfFileReader(fp)
output.addPage(input.getPage(0))
output.write(outputStream)
fp.close()
if you have got python but not pyPdf then run pip install pyPdf or easy_install pyPdf before running the script.
Sequence Numbersnaming feature, which allows you to change the step value. With it, you could rename the files in the first folder to;1, 3, 5, 7...and files in the second folder to:2, 4, 6, 8..., by changing the start number to 2. After that you'd just put the files in the same folder and use the Combine feature + the split feature in acrobat.