Hi,
I'm looking for inexpensive software (must be less than $500, should
be less than $200, nice if it's free/opensource!) that provides the
following functionality:
(1) Automatically splits a single multi-page PDF into individual
single-page PDF files.
(2) Allow for the designation of a "source" directory (or ideally
multiple directories) where it watches for new multi-page PDF's to be
split, and designation of a "target" directory that it writes the
output (split) PDF files.
(3) The software should be capable of running as a Windows Service.
For example, if the server/PC is rebooted, it should automatically
resume it's work of watching the source directory and splitting to the
destination directory. In other words, it's processing should not
require human intervention to keep it working.
(4) Automatically names each individual single-page PDF file with a
name that was "scraped" from each page of the sinlge multi-page PDF.
For example, each page with a different "invoice number" (1234, 1235,
1236, etc) becomes the name of the output PDF files (1234.pdf,
1235.pdf, 1236.pdf, etc).
(5) The tool would ideally have the ability to log data about the PDF
processing to either a database or structured text/XML file that can
be imported into a relational database (SQL Server). For example, the
log should contain: date processed, "scraped" field value (such as
"invoice number"), status (succeeded, failed, etc).
(6) In the target directory, it would be nice if it could
automatically generate "parameterized" directories by date for the
output (split) PDF files. For example, when the system clock is
"January 1, 2005" it should write all PDF files to the "2005-01"
directory. Then, in February, all PDF's will be written to the
"2005-02" directory. Alternatively, it should be possible to work by
year ("2005" directory, "2006" directory).
(7) The software should be able to handle a high volume of PDF
splitting (more than 300 pages/PDF's per day).
(8) There should be a trial version available for testing.
(9) It should be compatible with Windows 2000 Server and Windows XP.
To make this question easier to answer, the tool PDF Content Split
1.18 (http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-tools/PDF/PDF-Content-Split.shtml)
meets most of our needs except #3 and #5.
An answer that provides a detailed feasible and simple custom solution
using Microsoft.NET 1.1 will also be considered.
Thanks!
Chris |
