I have a raft of paper documents to scan into my PC and want to add or edit the properties of the resulting PDF files so I can filter and search for specific document bundles in the future.

After a bit of experimenting I think I need the PDFShellServer 1.0 Type Library listed in the VBA Editor menu Tools>References. I have tried selecting it but get the message “Error in loading DLL”.

The path listed when PDFShellServer is highlighted is truncated to “C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\Acr”. I have taken this to be “C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AcroCEF” as this is the only folder on that path containing DLLs.

The path C:\Pro….\AccroApp contains what appear to be language files.

AcroCEF contains many DLLs but none relating to PDFShellServer. I have spent many happy hours (not) searching the web (and my PC) for the Library all to no avail.

I have found something called “Interop.PDFSHELLSERVERLib.dll” on a third party site; is this the same thing or will I be facing gotchas down the line if I try it?

If not can anybody tell me where I can get the PDFShellServer 1.0 Type Library please?