Sorting a PDF document

Hey all,
we have got an PDF document with 10200 pages. This includes 1.700 invoices, each of them consisting of 6 pages.
Unfortunatly the invoices are not sorted.
Is there any chance to sort the invoices according to the customer ID metioned on the first page of each invoice?
Kinds regards,
Lukas

For that many pages it sounds like a full day of work. It might be possible to write a JavaScript to find the custID and then move pages based on that info. However, such a script would probably not be trivial. The folks in the SDK or JavaScript forums might be able to help.

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