Script to split pdf into sections

Hello
I have an awful lot of books in pdf format
I now have to be able to split them into their chapters, I'm assuming I'll have to make a text file up for each book to tell the script where each chapter starts
I've done some scripting in Indesign and Quark on the Mac OS X but am yet to do anything in Acrobat, I'd want something that could loop through the list of page numbers for each chapter start and extract each chapter as a seperate pdf
I'd be grateful for pointers to anything useful, I've found bit and bobs with google but nothing that useful so far
I'm decent at canablising, hpeless working from scratch
Thanks
Tynan

Use the extractPages document method: http://livedocs.adobe.com/acrobat_sdk/9.1/Acrobat9_1_HTMLHelp/JS_API_AcroJS.88.465.html

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A100006                                   0
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