Free Acrobat Actions & JavaScripts
A free collection of Adobe Acrobat Action Wizard sequences and folder-level JavaScripts to automate the everyday PDF jobs — redaction, bookmarking, batch processing, stamping, metadata and more. Coming soon — add your email to be first to get it.
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What's in the Collection
Ready-to-run Adobe Acrobat Action Wizard sequences and folder-level JavaScripts that automate the PDF jobs people repeat every day — free to download, use, and adapt. Here's what we're packaging up.
Bookmarks & Navigation
Generate bookmarks from headings or text patterns, build a linked table of contents, and flatten or renumber an existing outline.
Redaction & Clean-up
Mark and permanently remove text by pattern, strip hidden metadata, and sanitise documents before sharing.
Batch Processing
Run OCR, optimize, flatten, or export across a whole folder of PDFs in a single Action.
Stamping & Numbering
Add Bates numbers, page numbers, watermarks, and headers or footers across multiple files.
Metadata & Properties
Read and set document titles, authors, keywords, and open options — one file or in bulk.
Preflight & Standards
Check PDF/A and accessibility markers, and report on document structure for compliance workflows.
Each Action installs into Acrobat's Action Wizard in seconds; each JavaScript drops into your Acrobat JavaScripts folder. No coding required to run them.
Acrobat Actions and JavaScript, explained
Adobe Acrobat has two built-in ways to automate work, and you don't need to be a developer to use either.
The Action Wizard (Acrobat Pro) records a sequence of steps — OCR, redaction, watermarking, saving — and replays them across one file or a whole folder. An Action is a small .sequ file you import once and then run from Tools > Action Wizard.
Acrobat JavaScript is Adobe's scripting language for PDFs. A folder-level .js file placed in Acrobat's JavaScripts folder adds new menu commands that can do things the interface can't — bulk edits, custom logic, data-driven changes. It is a dialect of JavaScript, so if you have written JS before it will feel familiar.
The simple rule: if you do the same PDF task more than a few times, or need to do it on a folder of files, an Action or a script will save you time. When a job outgrows a script — high volume, server-side, or deep integration — that is where Acrobat plug-ins built on the Acrobat SDK come in, and where Mapsoft's development team builds custom solutions.
Learn More About Acrobat Automation
While the collection is in the works, these guides cover the same ground.
The Acrobat Action Wizard
How to record, import, and run multi-step Actions to automate PDF workflows.
Read the guide →Introduction to Acrobat JavaScript
The basics of Acrobat's scripting language and what folder-level scripts can do.
Read the guide →Batch Process PDFs: 5 Methods
Action Wizard, JavaScript, watch folders, the command line, and Mapsoft plug-ins.
Read the guide →Customizing Adobe Acrobat
Toolbars, preferences, custom stamps, shortcuts, and organization-wide deployment.
Read the guide →Need PDF Automation That Goes Beyond a Script?
Actions and JavaScripts handle the everyday jobs. When you need high-volume, server-side, or deeply integrated PDF processing — that's what Mapsoft's Acrobat plug-in and PDF Library team builds.
Custom Acrobat & PDF Development
We've been building Acrobat plug-ins and server-side PDF pipelines for legal, financial, pharma, government, and publishing teams for over 30 years. Typical projects:
- Acrobat plug-ins (C/C++ SDK) for bespoke in-application tools
- Batch redaction, bookmarking, and stamping across large document sets
- Server-side PDF generation, validation, and conversion on the Adobe PDF Library
- Regulatory document preparation — FDA, PDF/A archival, accessibility
- Data-driven and variable PDF production at scale
Which Acrobat task should we automate first?
This collection is taking shape now. Tell us the PDF job you most wish ran by itself — we'll prioritize it for the launch set, or quote you for a bespoke version if you need it sooner.
Prefer email? Write to support@mapsoft.com with the task you'd like automated.
Need a PDF tool we don’t ship? Or a custom Acrobat plug-in?
Free Actions and scripts cover the common cases. Bespoke Acrobat plug-ins, server-side PDF pipelines on the Adobe PDF Library, and production-grade document automation for legal, financial, pharma, and publishing teams are what Mapsoft’s consultancy and custom development teams do day-to-day. If an off-the-shelf tool nearly fits but doesn’t quite, that’s the gap we close.
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