As promised in my previous post regarding merging PDFs together using the new Access Modern Web Browser control:
This post is about splitting/extracting a set of pages from a PDF.
The Basic Concept
Thanks to the new Modern Web Browser being able to support JavaScript Promise, Canvas, …, I was able to finalize some work on the matter that I had started several years ago.
The interface is very simple:
where you select the file from which to extract pages from, specify the start and end pages to extract, provide a file name to give the generated PDF file and a button to make it all happen.
Just like with the Merge utility, the beauty here is it is all local and requires no software, dlls, ActiveX be installed or used to make it happen.
Furthermore, since I didn’t embed the HTML (like I’ve done for other solutions) in the database itself, you can even simply open the html file in your browser and use it there!
And yes, it is even possible to fully automate the process. So you could pull paths/files from Access and perform a merge without any user intervention.
The PDF Library
For the purposes of today’s article, just like the previous article, I will be using pdf-lib to perform the manipulations of the PDF document(s). That said, there are a number of alternatives and you can just as equally use any of those if you wish!
Demo Database
Feel free to download a 100% unlocked copy of a sample database I have put together to illustrate some of what is discussed above by using the link provided below:
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Disclaimer/Notes:
If you do not have Microsoft Access, simply download and install the freely available runtime version (this permits running MS Access databases, but not modifying their design):Microsoft Access 2010 Runtime
Microsoft Access 2013 Runtime
Microsoft Access 2016 Runtime
Microsoft 365 Access Runtime
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