Splitting PDFs by page count with pdfgrep and pdftk

[iwishiknew]

Hello!
I'm attempting to put together a batch file that will split a pdf consisting of 1 page and 2 page letters into two pdfs based on page count.

What I've got so far is

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pdfgrep -n -r "Id Number: L[0-9]{8}">>grep.txt
for /f "tokens=2 delims=:" %%G in (grep.txt) DO @echo %%G>>pages.txt
del grep.txt

I've attached an example output file "pages.txt"

and on the other end

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pdftk original.pdf cat %1page% output 1page.pdf
pdftk original.pdf cat %2page% output 2page.pdf

The part that I'm missing is where it takes the contents of pages.txt and passes those contents into the 1page or 2page variable based on whether it equals the previous number +1 or not.

I'm sure that there are much more efficient ways to do this, and I'm very open to suggestions, I just wanted to put out what I've got so far. Any suggestions/revisions(/derision?) would be greatly appreciated.

[iwishiknew]

To clarify, the part that I need help with is looping through the pages.txt file created by the first bat file and assigning the contents to the correct variable.

Something along the lines of:
line 1 = i
line 2 = j
If line 2 = i+1 then add i to %1page%
else, add i to %2page%
delete line 1, loop until eof.

I hope this makes more sense. the attached pages.txt file is a good sample of what the data will look like. It will always be numbers between 1 and 400, in ascending order and consisting of numbers either +1 (one page) or +2 (two page).

Thanks!

[penpen]

It sounds lie you only are searching for omething lie that:

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@echo off
setlocal enableExtensions enableDelayedExpansion
type "pages.txt"
set "_1page="
set "_2page="
<"pages.txt" set /p "line_1="
set /a "next=line_1+1"
:: line_2 == %%~a
for /f "skip=1 usebackq" %%a in ("pages.txt") do (
echo("!line_1!", "!next!", "%%~a"
	if "!next!" == "%%~a" (
		set "_1page=!_1page! !line_1!"
	) else (
		set "_2page=!_2page! !line_1!"
	)
	set /a "next=(line_1=%%~a)+1"
)

echo(_1page="!_1page!"
echo(_2page="!_2page!"
echo(unassigned: !line_1!
goto :eof

penpen

[iwishiknew]

Awesome! Thanks that is definitely a step in the right direction. Thank you so much for your help penpen. Something that didn't occur to me until I was looking at the output, currently it's splitting the list correctly, however, it's only getting the first page of the two page letters, is there a way to add the next page as well to all the 2 page letters

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_1page=" 3 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 20 21 22 25 30 31 32 33 38 43 44 45 46 47"
_2page=" 1 4 16 18 23 26 28 34 36 39 41"

IE, in this example, for each number that was added to the 2 page set, the next number needs to be added as well
1 2 4 5 16 17 18 19... and so forth

Thanks!

[penpen]

is there a way to add the next page as well to all the 2 page letters

Yes, of course:

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@echo off
setlocal enableExtensions enableDelayedExpansion
type "pages.txt"
set "_1page="
set "_2page="
<"pages.txt" set /p "line_1="
set /a "next=line_1+1"
:: line_2 == %%~a
for /f "skip=1 usebackq" %%a in ("pages.txt") do (
	if "!next!" == "%%~a" (
		set "_1page=!_1page! !line_1!"
	) else (
		set "_2page=!_2page! !line_1! !next!"
	)
	set /a "next=(line_1=%%~a)+1"
)

echo(_1page="!_1page!"
echo(_2page="!_2page!"
echo(unassigned: !line_1!
goto :eof

penpen

[iwishiknew]

Fantastic, thanks for your help!