Finding Duplicates within a Large PDF or multiple PDFs

Hello family,
I have a few large PDFs containing many emails and want to try to weed out duplicates.  These emails come from a few people's email accounts and will contain duplicates.  I guess my first question is 1) Is there a way to see for example if 3 pages from one pdf is contained in another pdf? and 2) Is there a feature/way to weed out duplicates within a single PDF ie. delete identical pages?
If anyone has any tricks they may have.  Right now, all I can think of is extract each email manually and then rename each email by Subject, then by date to weed out the duplicates.  Or do a word/phrase search within the larger pdf to see if it pops up.  Both ways are very time consuming.
Thanks,
jimmy

If each letter is 1 page then you can use the Extract Pages command (under the Document menu).
If it's more, or a varying size, then it could possibly done with a custom-made script.

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