Joining differnt sized PDF files

[DavePa]

Apologies if in wrong section but it seemed appropriate to ask here.

 

We need to produce reports for Governors and these need to be available from SharePoint. At present we collate the information in a variety of .pdf files - some will be A3, some A4 and even the odd A5 one. These are independently numbered and have individual headers/footers. We need to produce a pdf that contains ALL of these pages, sequentally numbered and with a consistent header and footer.

 

I understand from the person tasked with this that it is a long and laborious task involving several iterations through a process that involves Acrobat reader, Word, a PDF printer and screenshots.

 

Is there a way (ideally free but not critical that it is - just don't want to spend £000's) to join a number of differently sized PDF documents, strip out the headers and footers and replace them with a sinlge one that runs throughout the final document and then do the same with the page numbers? We need the PDF files to retain their original size and orientation.

 

I've only just been asked about this and haven't done much searching yet so if I find something I'll post it here for the benefit of anybody else that gets asked!

[6Foot2]

Not sure about the several iterations part if you are running Office/Word 2013:

 

1. Use Word to convert and save them to native .DOCX

2. Then use Word again to merge the newly created .DOCX documents into a single Word document.

3. Work on headers/footers/page numbers.

4. Then save the completed document to .PDF.

[DavePa]

Thanks @DaveP, that was my 1st thought when I was told of the issue but I've not yet had chance to sit with them to find out why it doesn't work that way.