Auto delete duplicate pages in a merged pdf?

Hi,
I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to automatically have Adobe Professional search a pdf and delete/remove all of the duplicate pages? I have merged a bunch of separate pdf files where some of the files have duplicate pages...thus instead of searching the entire pdf for the duplicate pages manually (+500 pages), I was hoping Adobe Professional could do this somehow automatically.
Thanks,
kmullen

Attached a VBS example how to get the text of a PDF page.
So you can loop trough the pages and delete if text1 = text2
The documentation you will find in the Acrobat SDK.
Section: IAC (InterApplication Comm..).
If you need examples for single commands search in Google for that.
The search function here is not very good.
HTH, Reinhard
GetText.vbs
'// Save this as GetText.vbs and start with Double Click
'// Acrobat with a Document must be OPEN
set WshShell = CreateObject ("Wscript.Shell")
WshShell.AppActivate("Adobe Acrobat")
WScript.Sleep 500
'// get the active Document
Set AcroApp = CreateObject("AcroExch.App")
Set AVDoc = AcroApp.GetActiveDoc
Set PDDoc = AVDoc.GetPDDoc
Set PdfPage = PDDoc.AcquirePage(0) '<<--SET in FILE! =Pagenumber
Set PageHL = CreateObject("AcroExch.HiliteList")
PageHLRes = PageHL.Add(0,9000) '<<--SET in FILE! (Start,END[9000=All])
Set PageSel = PdfPage.CreatePageHilite(PageHL)
for i = 0 to PageSel.Getnumtext - 1
pdfData =PDFData & PageSel.GetText(i)
Next
msgBox PDFDATA

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