Create single pdf of specific pages from multiple docs?

Is this possible using Acrobat...
I have several multi page PDF's (product info docs) and each has a technical specification on page 2.
I need to collate all the page 2's into one PDF.
If anyone know's how I go about that could you please let me know.
Thanks,
Mark

You can manually extract the pages to individual PDFs and then combine them into a single PDF. Exactly how you do that depends on which version of Acrobat you're using. For example, in Acrobat 9 you wold do "Document > Extract Pages" and then "File > Combine > Merge > Merge Files into a Single PDF", and you might then need to reorder the pages. If you need to do this a lot, you could automate the process of extracting the pages using a batch sequence and a bit of JavaScript.

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