Work-related scanner/pdf question

[kelliem]

I am going to reveal my ignorance here-- how does one scan a document which is several pages long and create a .pdf file wherein the pages are sequential within a single file, as opposed to having to open each page as a separate file? I've been asked to put the CV and recommendation letters of a job candidate into such files and I have no idea how to do it. We have two regular flatbed scanners and I know how to use them for single-page or single-image but it's the multiple-page thing that has me baffled.

Help me Obi-Wan Flist, you're my only hope!

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[mems-derynicat.livejournal.com]

Hi, I've been lurking here for a while, and may be able to help a little. I too was new to scanning not long ago!

Most scanners give you the option when you scan to do more than one page before you save the document. Ours has a pop-up window that asks if you want to scan again or stop. If you stop, you save the document and have one .pdf page. If you continue, you put the next page on the scanner and scan again. It should allow you to do this ad infinitum...when you are done, you chose to create a .pdf file (not document!).

I don't know if that makes sense, but honestly, I learned through trial and error. Hope that helps!

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

Hey, thanks! Yeah, that makes sense, I think. I will try that and see what happens.

(Can I assume from your name that you're a Katherine Kurtz fan?)

[moonpupy.livejournal.com]

When I was scanning the zines I'd borrowed from Linda, I'd scan each page without stopping and when all the pages were input, I'd tell the software I was using to "Stack" the pages. It did - and it took awhile - and then saved all the pages as one document, that you could page through. I was using Abbey Fine Reader as my OCR software.

[mems-derynicat.livejournal.com]

(Can I assume from your name that you're a Katherine Kurtz fan?)

Why yes! Especially her early stuff, have not been able to get into the latest trilogy...

and BTW, just for the it's a small world aspect of life, thought you would get a kick out of the fact that while I currently live in the sunny south of France, I spent most of my formative years not far from where you are...in Ft Collins of all places...

[kudra2324.livejournal.com]

if you have adobe acrobat writer, as opposed to just reader, you can combine multiple pdfs into one document using the "document>insert page" function.

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

Thanks, that worked. Fortunately I had a copy of Pro.

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

I ended up using Adobe Acrobat Pro to assemble the scanned images into a single PDF, since that was the software I had.