250 pages limitation in Acrobat 9 "Compare Documents"

When comparing the PDFs with more than 250 pages, the "Compare Documents" function will report as "Please limit documents to 250 pages before comparing", it is inconvenience for the comparison between big PDFs, is there any method to solve this?
Thank you in advance!

The simplest method is to extract blocks of pages from each document and do the comparison. Repeat for multiple blocks.

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