Splitting a disclosure bundle into documents
A disclosure bundle arrives as one 600-page PDF. To work with it you need the documents inside it separated — and to keep track of which pages went where.
Read the index before you cut
The page numbers you split at are PDF page positions, counted from the first page of the file — not the numbers printed on the documents, and not the numbering in the index if the bundle was paginated after indexing. Open the bundle, find the first page of each document, and note the position from the viewer.
A bundle paginated from 1 at the first page of the file is the easy case: index number and page position agree, and you can work straight from the index.
Cut in one pass, not twenty
Typing 1-14, 15-38, 39-97 into the range field produces three files in one operation, each named after the range it contains. Doing it one document at a time is slower and, more importantly, makes it easier to lose your place and duplicate or drop a page.
The output keeps the source name, so a file called disclosure-bundle-p39-97.pdf is traceable back to the bundle without a separate note.
What it will not do
It does not read the bundle’s index, detect document boundaries, or OCR scanned separators. It does not remove pages from the original — a new file is written and the original is untouched, which is the right default for disclosed material.
Can I split by bookmarks or by the index?+
No — ranges are typed manually. Bundles with reliable bookmarks usually split faster in a desktop PDF editor.
Does splitting reduce quality?+
No. Pages are copied rather than re-rendered, so text stays selectable and the original resolution is unchanged.
Is a 600-page bundle within the limits?+
Yes, provided the file itself is under 100 MB. Very large scanned bundles often exceed that and need compressing first.
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