Jun 13, '07 07:30:07AM • Contributed by: prospero
- Get your scanner all set up, using whatever drivers you need. (This can sometimes be a bear on OSX. If your scanner manufacturer doesn't provide a driver, check out the SANE project; they may have something for you).
- Download and install CombinePDF, a really fantastic little tool that I've found handy on many occasions.
- Connect your scanner to your Mac and fire up Image Capture.
- In the toolbar to the right, click on the drop-down next to Automatic Tasks.
- Click on "Other..."
- Browse to wherever CombinePDF is installed, select it, and click Open.
- Now insert your document into the scanner and click Scan.
- As each page is scanned, its file will be dumped into CombinePDF. So this works for multi-page documents, too -- each page will appear as a filename in CombinePDF.
- When all of your pages are scanned in, click on "Merge PDF..." in CombinePDF.
- Select a location for the final PDF and give it a name, then click OK.
