Merge PDFs at a given time

abonsey · Post by **abonsey** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 12:06 am

As a Newbie any help would be great.

I have PDFs being created through a flow that send to an input folder throughout the week. Once a week on a given day I need to merge them together based on their file name that is in the format xxx_123.pdf

How would I merge the PDFs together and save as xxx.pdf

Thanks for any help given

dkelly · Post by **dkelly** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 1:29 am

I've developed many flows with similar requirements with scripting. However, you maybe able to use Switch 12's flow properties to run the flow only on the given day. Then just use Merge PDF configurator and a simple text with variables for output file that splits the name before the "_" characters. Sorting the pages maybe difficult if you don't have leading 0s in page number.

freddyp · Post by **freddyp** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 10:01 am

And if you want to know how you can add leading zeroes, there is a possible method using regular expressions described in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8ZQKOS_UiM starting at 4:37.

Freddy

abonsey · Post by **abonsey** » Thu Jul 03, 2014 12:11 pm

Thanks for that. All working now.