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Scanning multiple pages into one PDF/TIFF file?
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Aug 31, 2005, 01:32 PM
 
Does anyone know how to scan multiple pages into one single PDF or TIFF file?

I have HP 5510 all-in-one printer which comes with a document feeder. Documents scanned could show up in Acrobat Reader - but every page as a separate PDF file.

If I scan to TIFF, it could show up in Preview, but still I can only save as 1 page per file and can't seem to be able to find out how to save them all into one document.

Does anyone know how to do this?

Many thanks.
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Aug 31, 2005, 06:04 PM
 
If you have Acrobat (the full version, either Standard or Pro) you can do this. Create a PDF (image capture), scan in each page until done.
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Aug 31, 2005, 08:42 PM
 
Thanks Macola.

Any chance that this be done without Acrobat?

I thought this is something really basic that I should be able to do without purchasing anything additional, as the scanner comes with an document feeder...
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Aug 31, 2005, 09:07 PM
 
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/16604
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/13829

These are PDF joiners. Not exactly the answer you were looking for, but useful if you can't get it to scan into a single document.
     
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Aug 31, 2005, 09:28 PM
 
you can do a layered tiff. beware of huge file sizes.

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Sep 1, 2005, 07:10 PM
 
i just released that you can do that with the HP software for Mac OS X that comes with it, but you'll have to choose "scan picture", rather than "scan document" or access the scan function through the panel on the machine.

I don't know why they designed it in such a way...
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Sep 2, 2005, 07:24 AM
 
Automator can also join pdfs.
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Sep 2, 2005, 10:58 AM
 
Check out PDFCombine. It's on VersionTracker. Maybe this will help. I haven't used it but looks like it might be what you are looking for.
     
   
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