Any script to automate stretching PDF to create bleeds?

Hi everyone!
I work for a Direct Mail company and we constantly get pdf's from clients that have color and artwork going to the edge but the artwork doesn't have any bleeds. When this happens, I usually place the pdf(usually 8.5" x 11") in a new InDesign document, copy each page, paste it over the original, shrink the new pasted layer to 1/8" wide and then use the Free Transform tool to expand it to 1/4" so it adds bleeds for a new pdf(which is 8.75" x 11.25" with crop marks and bleeds). And then do this for each side. If there are a few pages, it isn't a big deal but lately we are getting 20+ page pdf's and it is taking a lot more time to create. So is there a script that will automate this? Or one that will add crop marks and bleeds to an existing PDF? Unfortunately some of the documents have text going almost to the edge so I couldn't just take the pdf, expand it, and re-export it. Thanks for any help!
Adam

Bob, if I take the original pdf with text close to the edge, upsize it to the size with bleeds, and then fill the frame, it will take the text that was close to the edge and then expand it and the text would be in the area that is trimmed after it is printed and cut. Here is an example of what I usually do to 'add bleeds'. The blue stroke is the original image. I copy and paste it, resize and then stretch just the edge so that most of the information stays in the same place but only the edges are stretched to 'add bleeds'.
SReigel, we do have the policy to send us correct artwork and explain to the client how to do it but some are provided artwork from elsewhere and have no way to adjust it. If they have the original artwork file created in an Adobe program, Publisher, etc, we can take those files and reset it for print but most of our clients don't have the original design files or were given the files for print by another person who didn't create it so that is why I have to adjust them for print.

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