merge/combine several PDF files

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I have two folders having 1000 pdf files each, having identical names. I need to merge/combine all PDF files with the identical name in the third folder i.e. the resultant folder (folder 3) will contain 1000 files with each file will be the merged form of folder 1 and folder 2 file that had identical name.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 18 '17 at 16:35

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1.Within Acrobat, click on the Tools menu and select Combine Files. 2.Click Combine Files, and then click Add Files to select the files you want to include in your PDF. 3.Click, drag, and drop to reorder the files and pages. Double-click on a file to expand and rearrange individual pages. Press the 4.Delete key to remove unwanted content. When finished arranging files, click Combine Files. 5.Click the Save button.

this link should explain how to combine/merge PDF’s

answered Oct 18 '17 at 16:35

Joshua Charles Pickwell

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is it free as it claims? – derloopkat Oct 18 '17 at 16:37
Yes, I believe so – Joshua Charles Pickwell Oct 18 '17 at 16:37
dear,in the above swnario i have to merge one by one.but i want to merge 1000 files on one click – Tauseef Ahmed Oct 18 '17 at 16:43
Try doing a select all – Joshua Charles Pickwell Oct 18 '17 at 16:46
Or copy and paste them into one file – Joshua Charles Pickwell Oct 18 '17 at 16:48
I will try and find another answer and get back to you – Joshua Charles Pickwell Oct 18 '17 at 16:49

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 19 '17 at 16:52

You can use any command line tool that supports PDF merging to accomplish this task, see Merge / convert multiple PDF files into one PDF for some of the tools.

Since you want to work on many files, in a standard shell like bash you would do something like the following (using pdftk as example but substitute it for the tool you want to use):

$ mkdir folder3
$ cd folder1
$ for FILE in *; do pdftk "${FILE}" "../folder2/${FILE}" "../folder3/${FILE}"; done

merge/combine several PDF files

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