How do I normalize pdf page sizes

Seems like this should be more obvious but I'm stuck for solutions.
I keep getting these pdfs from clients that have pages of many different dimensions. I'm batch processing these for various uses and the irregular sizes really throw a wrench in the works.
My question, is there a way to batch pdfs (tool, command line, server or anything) so that all the pages are the exact same dimension?
Mind you, cropping is not an option unless that means adding some padding to the smaller pages so that they match the larger ones. Scaling is probably ok too but for now I just want to hear any options that are out there.
Thanks pros!

Well, that is a start.
Under the latest Acrobat for Macintosh (10.1.4), there is no Crop menu. (Menus are a tried and true user interface tool, so Adobe got rid of them).
You choose the Crop Tool.
Then you select an area larger than your document (if you select an area smaller than your document, sometimes the resize page also crops--I don't understand).
Then you double click your crop (so much for direct selection with a tool). A dialog box comes up.
Note that it says that the current page size is 11 x 8.5 (approx). Then choose Tabloid, and the dialog shows an expanded page size of 11 x 17, with the pdf stretched to fit.
Then you click All pages, and OK, and voilá, your document does have a new page size, but it is 17 x 11, not 11 x 17, and the white space is on top, not equally distributed as shown. But at least it hasn't stretched your scanned document as is implied by the dialog.
However, if you try to generalize to get the page size that you want, it doesn't work.
For instance, if you try to resize a document that is 11" x 8.486" (my document) to 14" x 9", a dialog comes up that says "Page size may not be reduced". If you try to resize it to 9" x 14" (just in case you misunderstood which is X and which is Y), no error message comes up, but the page size is not changed.
I'll futz around with this some more, but, Man, is Acrobat a time-sink.
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