Is there a way to find out if a PDF is a package and/or porfolio without opening the file?
I recently received a large number of PDFs on a job, within the thousands was a PDF package containing over 107 emails and the majority had attachments. This was discovered after days of reviewing the files and asking for items that were included in this package. The search engine software we have did not search through the attachments that were included in each of these emails. I wanted to know if there is a way to scan over a sea of PDFs and determine what is a package or a portfolio.
Let me know your thoughts.
You could try Acrobat 'Search' feature to search the folders with the PDFs, but this feature will not open the attachments.
You might be able to even create an Action/Batch Process to test a PDF to see if it is a portfolio and create a list of the PDF portfolios, since there is a unique property for packages/portfolios that can be used to identify a package/collection.
The example from the Acrobat JS API Reference:
if (this.collection) {
var collection = this.collection;
// Do something with the collection...
}
The 'collection' property will be a null if the open PDF is not a collection.
George Kaiser