Batch crop pdfs to the trim size

I have hundreds of pdfs that include all printer marks (crop marks, color guide..etc..) and i want trim or crop these pdfs in order to remove these marks.  I want to end up with just the artwork itself with no printer marks. I also don't want to import into photoshop which will rasterize the content.  Surely, there must be an easy way inside Acrobat Pro to do this?  Haven't found it, though.  The crop tool just baffles me.  I know that in Acrobat Pro I can use the crop tool and draw a rectangle to crop to but what i want is to automatically crop to the trim marks or the artboard and then set it up as a batch.  Thanks for listening.
-Mark

Which version of Acrobat are you using? If 9 then there's no Crop Pages options anymore in the batch sequences. You will need a custom-made script to do it, like this one: http://try67.blogspot.com/2009/02/acrobat-batch-crop-pages.html
Contact me by email if you're interested in it.  Otherwise you can just use the built-in function to crop the pages of multiple files.

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