How to Delete Duplicate PDF Files?

This article covers different topics:

  • Deleting duplicate pages from a PDF Document
  • Scanning and Deleting duplicate PDF Documents from your System

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Scan For Duplicate PDF Files

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Deleting Duplicate Pages from a PDF Document

Adobe Acrobat enables merging different PDF Documents. If you’ve merged two or more PDFs into a combined single PDF document, there is a possibility that it may contain duplicate pages. Here are the steps to delete duplicate pages from a PDF Document:

  1. Double-click Adobe Acrobat Pro icon on your desktop.
  2. Click the Open icon on the toolbar.
    Opening a PDF Document in Adobe Acrobat
  3. In the new screen click the My Computer tab. If the PDF document is located in My Documents, please click its icon on the same page. If it is stored in a different location, click Browse button and locate the actual file.
    Opening PDF Document
  4. Click the  Page Thumbnails icon.
    Page Thumbnails
  5. Page thumbnails will be displayed in a new panel.
  6. Right-click thumbnail of the duplicate page you would like to delete and select “Delete pages” option from the context menu. In this example, we’re removing Page # 170.
    Deleting Duplicate Page from PDF Docs
  7. A new prompt will appear. Specify whether you want to delete only selected page or different multiple pages. In the former case, choose “Selected” option. In the latter case, select “From” option and specify the range of page numbers.
    Delete Pages
  8. Click OK.
  9. A confirmation dialog will appear. Click OK to confirm and delete the selected page(s).
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  10. Click File | Save to save the document changes.
    Saving PDF Document
  11. Exit Adobe Acrobat Pro.

 

Scanning and Deleting Duplicate PDF Documents from your PC

There may be plenty of PDFs with different names but identical contents. There may be other files with the same name, same content, however, placed in different locations.

Using Clone Files Checker

With Clone Files Checker you can scan and delete duplicate PDF Documents using the powerful scan engine, scan filters. Your files are categorized into different types such as documents, images, music, videos and archive. Duplicate PDFs will be displayed under Documents categories.

Advantages

  • Instantly free-up your disk space by cleaning duplicate PDFs
  • Saves Time: Save daily 5 to 15 mins wasted in finding required PDFs
  • Shows Instant Results: Performs full hard disk scan within few minutes
  • Exclude sensitive documents from scan (Optional)
  • Exclude PDFs of certain sizes (Optional)
  • Automatically categorizes files in several groups
  • Automatically sorts newest/ oldest versions of your PDFs depending on your choice
  • Freedom to choose action- Delete file permanently or move it to Recycle Bin or a specific folder
  • Secure Delete: Creates backups so that you won’t lose any files accidentally
  • Export list of all duplicate PDFs to a new text file

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