Extract Pages from Adobe Acrobat Pro 9 Using Search

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Adobe Acrobat Professional (Acrobat Pro) is an industry-standard PDF creation, editing and management software developed by Adobe Systems. Released as part of the Adobe Creative Suite family in 2008, it has since become one of the most widely used tools for working with Portable Document Format files.

One powerful feature included within Acrobat Pro is its robust search functionality. This allows users to quickly locate specific content across entire documents or even multiple PDFs at once using various criteria such as text strings, keywords and more importantly - pages containing certain information.

In this article we'll cover the step-by-step process of extracting only those pages from an Adobe Acrobat Pro 9 document that match a user-specified search query. This is particularly useful when dealing with large, multi-page PDFs where it's essential to isolate specific sections for further analysis or distribution without having to sift through every single page manually.

Prerequisites

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Before proceeding with the following instructions, make sure you have Adobe Acrobat Pro 9 installed on your system and that you're logged in as an administrator (or at least possess sufficient privileges).

Step-by-Step Instructions:

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### Step 1: Launch Adobe Acrobat Professional 9

Double-click on the 'Acrobat.exe' icon within either your Start menu (Windows) or Applications folder (Mac OS X), depending on which operating system you're running. Alternatively, navigate to the installation directory where Adobe Reader/Acrobat was installed and double-tap/double-click on it.

### Step 2: Open a PDF Document Containing Pages You Want to Extract

From within Acrobat Pro's main interface, click 'File' > 'Open...' from the top menu bar (or press Ctrl+O for Windows or Command+O on Mac). Browse through your local drives until you locate the target PDF file containing all pages that need processing. Double-click it once selected.

### Step 3: Access Acrobat Pro's Search & Accessibility Panel

With the opened document active within the main workspace, navigate to 'Edit' > 'Find/Previous...' (or press Ctrl+F on Windows or Command+Shift+F on Mac). This will bring up Adobe's Find dialog box. From here:

1. Select 'Text with formatting' from the drop-down list located at top-left corner of this panel.

2. In the subsequent window, enter your desired search term(s) into the respective text field(s).

3. Make sure that only 'entire document,' as well as any other applicable options are checked under 'Search within.'

4. Finally click on the magnifying glass icon or press Enter to initiate the full-text search.

### Step 4: Extract Pages Matching Your Search Criteria

Once Acrobat Pro has finished searching through all pages of your active PDF, you should see a list of results displayed in the left-hand sidebar panel labeled 'Search Results.' To extract only those specific pages containing instances matching your original search criteria:

1. Select each page(s) that need extraction by holding down Shift (Windows) or Command+Shift (Mac OS X), then click on them once to select.

2. Alternatively, you can also right-click/right-dblclick anywhere within the 'Pages' panel and choose 'Extract as PDF...' from context menu.

A new dialog box titled 'Save As' will appear asking for a location where extracted pages should be saved along with filename & file format preference (PDF or text). Choose your preferred settings, then click on 'Save.'

Tips & Variations

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- To further refine your search results, you can also use advanced search operators like quotes (' ') to specify exact phrases, plus sign (+) for AND operations and minus (-) symbol before a term to exclude it entirely.

- If desired, instead of saving extracted pages as separate PDFs, you could choose 'Text' under the 'Save as type' drop-down in Step 4 above. This will allow you to export only relevant content without any surrounding layout or formatting.

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In conclusion, this article has provided a step-by-step guide on how to extract specific pages from an Adobe Acrobat Pro 9 document based solely upon user-specified search criteria using the software's built-in search functionality. By following these simple instructions and leveraging the powerful features offered by Acrobat Pro, you'll be able to quickly isolate and extract only those essential sections of large PDFs that meet your particular needs in no time at all!

Extract pages from adobe acrobat pro 9 using search