[blindLaw] accessible solution for splitting large pdfs

[Sai]

1. Acrobat Pro can do this easily.

It's $60 via TechSoup if you have (or work for) a US non-profit:
https://www.techsoup.org/adobe (There may be similar deals for non-US
nonprofits, but I don't know.)

Just be sure to get actual Acrobat Pro (current version is 2020), not the
new "Creative Cloud" or "DC" which require a yearly subscription and don't
work properly when offline.

It's $538 for normal license:
https://helpx.adobe.com/download-install/kb/acrobat-2020-downloads.html &
https://commerce.adobe.com/checkout/email/?items%5B0%5D%5Bid%5D=58675001ACEBE288DBDA18D701134F56&cli=adobe_com&co=US&lang=en


2. I believe OSX Preview (which comes with OSX) can do basic operations
like splitting PDFs. Just select a set of pages and export those to a new
PDF.


3. If you're comfortable using Unix there are several totally free command
line tools with similar functionality. Obviously they don't have fancy GUI,
but then, do you really care about a graphical interface?

For example, pdftk can split, merge, etc. There are several tools that can
do more advanced stuff that Acrobat itself won't do, like pdfresurrect
(unpacks hidden previous revisions in a PDF), pdfcrack (cracks password
protected PDFs), origami (extract, modify, etc PDF contents), etc.

E.g. origami is a very flexible PDF manipulation library:
https://github.com/gdelugre/origami (which has a GTK based GUI available,
https://rubygems.org/gems/pdfwalker ), but requires you to know (or learn)
the programming language Ruby.

You can install Ubuntu in Windows 10 & 11 via WSL, on OSX using BootCamp,
VMware, VirtualBox, or similar, or as your primary OS using an installation
DVD or USB drive ( https://ubuntu.org has instructions).


4. pdftk is also available for Windows & OSX, with both command line and
GUI options — free for the full command line version & basic GUI version,
$4  for full GUI version:

https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-server/
https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/

I've only used the Unix CLI version so I can't comment on the GUI version,
but I can confirm that the pdftk CLI is quite useful (even though I also
have Acrobat Pro).

Sincerely,
Sai
President, Fiat Fiendum, Inc., a 501(c)(3)

Sent from my mobile phone; please excuse the concision and autocorrect
errors.

On Sat, 20 Aug 2022, 06:12 Justin Harford via BlindLaw, <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
wrote:

> Hello
>
> PDF split and  merge is an app for iOS which might do the trick. I just
> took a look at a file that had about 250 pages and it looks like you can
> split it in equal intervals among other options.
>
> It's not free, but not very expensive either.
>
> Justin Harford
> Oregon Bell Academy Coordinator
>
>
> > On Aug 19, 2022, at 9:55 PM, Rahul Bajaj via BlindLaw <
> blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > As a practicing attorney, I often have to deal with very bulky files
> [300+
> > pages] in my work. JAWS tends to freeze when such a large file is opened
> in
> > Adobe. One workaround that I have found is to split the file, such that I
> > can extract the relevant pages from the bulky file and read them as a
> > separate PDF. DOes anyone know of any good, preferably free, solutions
> that
> > do this?
> >
> > I'd basically just have to key in the page numbers that I would want to
> > made into a spearate PDF.
> >
> > Warmly,
> > Rahul
> >
> > --
> > --
> > Rahul Bajaj
> > Attorney, Ira Law
> > Senior Associate Fellow, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy
> > Rhodes Scholar (India and Linacre 2018), University of Oxford
> > Co-Founder, Mission Accessibility
> > Special Correspondent on the rights of persons with disabilities, Oxford
> > Human Rights Hub
> > Coordinator of the working group on accessibility, e-Committee, Supreme
> > Court of India
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