Excuse me if this is a double post... On 31 Jul 2015, at 3:22 pm, SUBSCRIBE MACSCRPT Inyo55 <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Osx = Yosemite. App to see code from recording is Acrobat Pro 9. You're out of luck with Acrobat -- it's not recordable. > Scripting the Acrobat is where I wanted to record the steps to bring into the applescript. Say, extract pages 1 thru 12, save new file. Then go back to original pdf, extract pages 13 thru 42, whatever, save as new file. Repeat as required Why not skip Acrobat altogether? use AppleScript version "2.3.1" use scripting additions use framework "Foundation" use framework "Quartz" -- for PDF stuff on extractPages:firstPage thruTo:lastPage ofPDFDocAt:posixPath -- make URL of the first PDF set inNSURL to current application's class "NSURL"'s fileURLWithPath:posixPath -- make PDF document from the URL set theDoc to current application's PDFDocument's alloc()'s initWithURL:inNSURL -- count the pages set pageCount to theDoc's pageCount() -- delete pages at end if lastPage < pageCount then repeat with i from pageCount to (lastPage + 1) by -1 (theDoc's removePageAtIndex:(i - 1)) -- zero-based indexes end repeat end if -- delete pages at start if firstPage > 1 then repeat with i from (firstPage - 1) to 1 by -1 (theDoc's removePageAtIndex:(i - 1)) -- zero-based indexes end repeat end if -- save in new file set newPath to inNSURL's |path|()'s stringByDeletingPathExtension()'s stringByAppendingString:("_" & firstPage & "-" & lastPage & ".pdf") theDoc's writeToFile:newPath end extractPages:thruTo:ofPDFDocAt: set thePath to POSIX path of (choose file of type {"pdf"}) my extractPages:2 thruTo:5 ofPDFDocAt:thePath You could also do the original text extraction and grep in AppleScript. -- Shane Stanley <[log in to unmask]> <www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/> -- Shane Stanley <[log in to unmask]> <www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>