PDF Software to Split a Page in Two?

Adobe Acrobat.

 

As I no longer have a need for Acrobat, I don't have it installed, so I can't show you the exact commands. However, you should be able to edit any .pdf file and make whatever changes you want. You should be able to delete information from a document. You could save two copies of the doc, then open the first copy and delete the 2nd half of the page. Then open the 2nd copy and delete the first half of the page. Then join the two pages into one document. If, however, the scan shows up as an image in the .pdf, you'd have to crop the image to remove what you don't want.

 

I agree with Greg. Found this thread through Google search and after attempting many different ways, PDFClerk Pro did what I need. It's also a fairly pretty Cocoa UI.

Like many others, I had many PDFs of scanned documents which showed two pages in the space of one horizontal (or landscape) A4 page. I wanted to split them all down the middle to get twice as many vertical, or portrait, A4 sized pages to read on my iPad.

Splitting pages in half with PDFClerk Pro is a snap. Select all pages of the PDF you want to split in half, then right click to select "Split Pages Vertically". Some instructions pop up about how to adjust the split, then you hit Option+Return to split all pages.

In Demo mode you can export as PDF with a watermark, but so far it has no other limitations that I've encountered. If you need to process a lot of documents with ease, I'd say this is definitely worth the $45.

 

worked like a charm!

 

@jayrobinson:

Thanks for your very helpful advice. I found this thread with a Yahoo search and since I have Sintra's PDF Nomad, I tried it to see if it would work as Clerk does. I'm happy to report that your instructions as applied to PDF Nomad worked like a charm in late 2013.

Cheers!