How to Use Acrobat SDK for Automation Using VB or Perl

Hi Forum,
I am a new bie, just 2 days old to acrobat and javascript, and I am basically a perl developer
I am using Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro,
I downloaded Acrobat SDK, but i don't know what else to do further, how to use??
I tried to start learning SDK, but no proper documents i found to learn and start using SDK,
Please suggest some guide or documentation for start learning Acrobat SDK (Step by Step guide)
Here with I have created a small script to merge two pdf
// Create a new PDF document:
var newDoc = app.newDoc();
// Insert doc1.pdf:
newDoc.insertPages({
nPage : -1,
cPath : "/d/sathish/1.pdf",
// Insert doc2.pdf:
newDoc.insertPages({
nPage : newDoc.numPages-1,
cPath : "/d/sathish/2.pdf",
// Save the new document:
newDoc.saveAs("/d/sathish/myNewDoc.pdf");
My code is working fine and merging properly,
Is there any way to execute this script through commandline or using some other scripting languages like perl or through VB
My objective is to automate the merging process without any manual intervention, I don't want to open acrobat manually to execute this javacript, i want to automate that process too,
Please suggest me which will be very helpful to me,
Thanks in advance
Thanks & Regards
Sathish V.

It is a big SDK and to learn its features requires a lot of reading. But to start with I guess I should start with "Introduction to SDK".
Since you want to control Acrobat from another application you should consider this under "Interapplication communication". You will be using OLE/COM.

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