In the documentation I had downloaded for the software, there was a mention of a command line interface. I worked out that this would shave roughly another 2 or 3 minutes off the processing time for each proceeding. On first run, it looked as though it could only split one document in multiple places. I downloaded the Windows version and installed it onto my machine. The slogan of “A free and open source tool to split and merge PDF documents” meant that I had found my solution. I clicked on the link, had a read over the site, then downloaded and printed off the instruction manual. The first result that came up was that of “PDF split and merge”. “open source PDF splitter” came to mind and this was the first set of keywords that I had entered that day. Without spending very much or no money at all for a solution, I decided to turn to Google to find a solution. I figured there must have been an easier and quicker way to split the documents into individual arguments. I worked out that I could split an individual PDF, with around about 10 minutes, give or take, depending on how much content was in each session. The splitting of the document needed to be exact, as the sessions were being uploaded individually into a different site.

I was first introduced to PDFsam when I was given the task of splitting about 300 conference proceedings into individual session talks, totaling around about 5500 individual sessions.

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