I'm not perfectly sure if this is even a thing which can be done, but here is my quandry: We produce a rapid-turnaround periodical series in PDF format. The vast majority of our users access the papers online (where inconsistency in format is generally adjusted for automatically by one's PDF-viewer or browser), but we do also have a limited run of hard-copy booklets printed. The printers have recently noted that the PDFs we send sometimes have varying paper-sizes for the pages, which does not work well with their process. On our end, because of the speed with which we turn around submissions, we don't have a ton of time to invest in checking minutia of PDFs. We have a program which generates three pages of PDF front-matter content, using our sql database. The program then appends these pages to the beginning of the body-of-document PDF (whatever the authors sent). Is there a way to easily check a batch of 20 PDFs for inconsistency in page sizing? Thus, for example, I'd like a quick way to know if the author of one of the papers in a batch has used 8.5x11 through most of the document but used 11x17 size for the tables in the back. I looked at the compare tool, but as far as I can tell, it is for comparing versions of the same PDF. What I want to do is look at roughly 20 PDFs at once and see if any have size-inconsistent pages. Any advice? I'm also not sure I have chosen the correct location to ask this question,so happy to be directed if there is a better place to ask.
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