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Auto identify and delete blank pages

Community Beginner ,
Jun 22, 2017 Jun 22, 2017

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Hi,

I have a large pdf with approx. 8000 pages that has been created via an InDesign data merge, it is a customer mailing that auto inserts different documents based on a tab delimited csv.  As not all customers will need the same inserts the result of the data merge is a large number of blank pages in the resulting pdf, and rather than manually deleting each blank page is there a way of identifying all the blank pages in Acrobat DC and deleting them?  Perhaps even a way of auto grouping all blank pages together so I can then just delete a range?

Any suggestions?

Thanks

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Jun 22, 2017 Jun 22, 2017

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You can use a script for this, but it can only identify pages without any words in them, or meta-objects like form fields, annotations, links, etc. It can't know if there are other elements like images or graphics.

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Ok, that's an interesting idea, all the pages that need deleting are totally blank, no images or text so that sounds like an option.  However, I don't have experience in writing scripts, where can I find an example so I can take a look and have a try?

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