Music in this video we'll look at how to split PDF documents using a keyword list with the auto split plugin for Adobe Acrobat it may be necessary to split a PDF at pages containing certain words the plugin allows you to list these keywords and search the document to create multiple documents that feature each of them the document will then be splits at the pages containing these listed keywords in this tutorial we'll use a sample document containing Bates numbers in the lower right hand corner of each page this document has been numbered through all 17 pages we'll split the documents at pages with specified Bates numbers and also use them to name the output documents let's take a look at how to open the necessary tool with the required documents open an acrobat select plugins split documents then split document in the window that opens check the you separate to option and select page with keywords from list from the drop-down menu next to it then click options in this box we'll enter all the split keywords one per line for where we want to split the document if required use the matched x case option to perform a case sensitive search use match hole words to ignore partial matches when a keyword might appear as part of another word click OK once these options are set now press add in the output naming and destination section from this list check the text by search option now click Next at the bottom of the window we'll use this window to name the output files with the splitting baits number to do this we'll enter this expression into the find watt box once this is done press okay click browse to specify a suitable output folder once configuration is complete click OK you'll then be prompted to click ok again to confirm the splitting process the auto spit results window will show the created files click the open output folder option to inspect them all five output PDFs were split at the specified Bates numbers each of these files contains all pages between where each split took place visit ever map comm for further product resources.