Solved How to: scan multiple documents and save them as a single PDF file?

[Kopfjaeger]

Hello folks.

Inaugural post here. Checked FAQs and searched the forums. I found this thread, which was close, but not exactly what I am looking for.

http://en.irfanview-forum.de/vb/showthread.php?p=19672#post19672

What I want to do is to scan multiple documents and save them as a single PDF file.

So far I have found out how to scan a document, save it as a .TIF file and convert it to PDF. Thus single page scan to single PDF file.

I have read some reference to "command line switches."

This sounds interesting if by command line commands and switches, I can accomplish what I am asking above.

Many thanks for rendering useful direction in scanning multiple documents and saving the result as a single (multi-page) PDF file.

KJ


Using: Win2000 / SP4, Paperport Deluxe ver. 6.1 & IrfanView ver. 4.10

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

I think you have to save to multipage TIF first, then save that as a PDF file.

[Kopfjaeger]

Thanks Pesala, for your response.

I initially tried scanning as a multipage document and saved in TIF (e.g. multi-page TIFF) but the result was three separate files.

Could you assume that I know nothing about Irfanview 4.10 and walk me through the scanning / saving as multi-page TIFF process?

Thanks,

KJ

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

File menu, Acquire Batch Scanning, Multiple Images (Batch Mode), Save as TIF, Save as multipage image.

[Kopfjaeger]

SUCCESS!

This morning I tried again, using your suggestion and it worked flawlessly.

The root of my problem is that I was earlier using the scanner's own scan utility, and not starting within IrFanView.

What an incredibly useful program!

Love it.

KJ

out.

[Slipp]

I wasted half an hour on this and nearly wore out a few pages while turning them over for two-sided scans. I knew it was possible to scan multi-page PDF files. I'd done it before, but not lately. I FINALLY discovered my error. Irfanview asks for a file name and destination in the scan set-up window. I lost sight of the fact that the file is saved as soon as you close the scanner app. I was RESAVING a single page from inside Irfanview after the scan was done. That overwrote my initial multi-page scan. Phew! So, the solution is to trust Irfanview to do what it says it will do and do not overwrite the autosaved file.