Automation of conversion to separate PDFs of almost 1000 folders with scans

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Jensen Head
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Automation of conversion to separate PDFs of almost 1000 folders with scans

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I ask the user community for advice. I have 890 folders, each of which contains one and a half to two dozen pictures. The folder structure is as follows:
d:\docs\001\01.png
d:\docs\001\02.png

d:\docs\001\17.png
d:\docs\002\01.png
d:\docs\002\02.png

d:\docs\002\14.png

d:\docs\890\18.png
d:\docs\890\19.png
How can I automate the processing of these documents so that I end up with the following hierarchy?
d:\docs\001.pdf
d:\docs\002.pdf

d:\docs\890.pdf
Even with the Shell Menu, sending each folder for conversion, then renaming the resulting PDF, moving it, and deleting the original folder is quite a tedious task. Especially considering the need to control the number of PDF-Tools processes running.
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Re: Automation of conversion to separate PDFs of almost 1000 folders with scans

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Hello, Jensen Head

It looks like you want to put all of the merges from each subfolder, into a single document named based on the input folder's name?
If so, the %[FolderTitle] macro should be able to accomplish this.

The only trouble would be separating the processes by each subfolder... I don't believe there is an easy/automatic way to do so...
I would probably advise that processing each folder one by one, and then moving/deleting the input folders in bulk, after the process is completed would help to save some time.

Kind regards,
Dan McIntyre - Support Technician
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