Scan Multiple Pages And Save Them As One PDF Document

Sometimes a software can be used to solve more than one problem. We reviewed eDoc Organizer before that allows users to organize documents. It also has a build-in scanner with a feature to append one page after another and then save them all as one XPS document.

Update: Also check out a much easier and simpler method which uses iCopy here.

This post includes two simple steps:

  1. Scan and merge all pages and save them as XPS document
  2. Convert XPS document to PDF document.

First open eDoc Organizer and hit the Scan button. This will bring up the Scanner Document Wizard. Now insert the first page in your scanner, set options that suits your need, and hit Scan button.

Once the scan is complete, insert the second page in your scanner, and hit Append button. Now insert the third page in the scanner and hit Append again, and keep going on until all pages are finished.

Finally hit Save and Finish button and it will automatically merge the pages, save them as XPS document, and add it to the program. But the problem is that eDoc Organizer does not allow users to export the documents.

Since eDoc Organizer uses MySQL to save all documents in the database, you can easily find the documents saved inside the AppData folder.

To get the XPS document file, head over to the following folder. Make sure that ‘Show Hidden Files And Folders options is enabled”.

C:\Users\[Windows Username]\AppData\Local\eDoc\Organizer\Document Store

In the screenshot below you can see the XPS document with some random name.

XPS Document

Copy this XPS file to some safe location. Open it with Internet Explorer and hit Print. Select Bullzip PDF Printer from the list of printers and hit the Print button.

bullzip pdf printer

Next, it will ask you to select the output destination and name the file, give it any name and hit Save.

Bullzip Convert XPS PDF

You are done. Now open this newly created PDF document and you will find all scanned pages listed neatly inside. Enjoy!

  • Share this article!

    • Digg this!
    • Bookmark on Reddit
    • Bookmark at Delicious
    • Stumble this!
    • Share this post at Facebook
    • Tweet this!
    • Share on Yahoo! Buzz
    • Add AddictiveTips to your Technorati favorites
    • Share on Friendfeed
This entry was posted in Windows and tagged , , , . Bookmark the permalink. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

7 Comments

  1. Posted September 26, 2009 at 5:55 pm | Permalink

    Thank you for this tip. I just wanted to share that you can print the document directly from eDoc Organizer. This will make step #2 pretty straight forward as you dont have to try and find the file in the Document Store directory. Once you hit the “Save and Finish” button on the Scan Document Wizard, you can double click the thumbnail of the document to open it in eDoc Organizer. From there using the first button on the toolbar you can print to the Bullzip PDF Printer directly.

  2. hugh jenkins
    Posted October 5, 2009 at 1:02 pm | Permalink

    With Documalis free scanner you can do it in one go – scan and save direct to pdf

  3. pearlscan
    Posted November 20, 2009 at 11:03 am | Permalink

    This is a process we carry out on a daily basis. Files can be compiled into 1 PDF instantly with Adobe acrobat full. Visit for more info:

    http://www.pearl-scan.co.uk
    http://www.pearl-repro.co.uk
    http://www.4document-scanning.co.uk
    http://www.forms-data-capture.co.uk
    http://www.microfiche-microfilm-scanning.co.uk

  4. pearlscan
    Posted November 20, 2009 at 4:03 pm | Permalink

    This is a process we carry out on a daily basis. Files can be compiled into 1 PDF instantly with Adobe acrobat full. Visit for more info:

    http://www.pearl-scan.co.uk
    http://www.pearl-repro.co.uk
    http://www.4document-scanning.co.uk
    http://www.forms-data-capture.co.uk
    http://www.microfiche-microfilm-scanning.co.uk

  5. pearlscan
    Posted November 20, 2009 at 9:03 pm | Permalink

    This is a process we carry out on a daily basis. Files can be compiled into 1 PDF instantly with Adobe acrobat full. Visit for more info:

    http://www.pearl-scan.co.uk
    http://www.pearl-repro.co.uk
    http://www.4document-scanning.co.uk
    http://www.forms-data-capture.co.uk
    http://www.microfiche-microfilm-scanning.co.uk

  6. Steve Seldin
    Posted January 11, 2010 at 9:50 am | Permalink

    This fine if you want to process single page documents, but it is a painful way to process multipage documents, such as contracts, and articles. Is there a one step way to process multipage documents?

  7. Nakodari
    Posted January 11, 2010 at 11:44 am | Permalink

2 Trackbacks

  1. [...] Suppose you have a hardcopy of a document with 20 or 100 pages, you want to convert them to a PDF file and burn it to a disk, what will you do? The most common way would be to first scan the document page by page, then convert the images to PDF format one by one, join them using PDFSam, and finally burn them to a disk. Such a long method can take forever with a 100 pages or more document. Update: Try using the new proper guide here. [...]

  2. By Free Scan To PDF Software on November 7, 2009 at 4:13 pm

    [...] I have come across various software that allow users to convert their scanned documents to PDF format, but they all have one problem – they are expensive commercial apps. Then there are some free apps but they come with restrictions. So far I have covered only one possible way to scan multiple pages and then save them as a PDF document. [...]

Post a Comment

Your email is never published nor shared. Required fields are marked *

*
*

You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>


More in Windows (5 of 5 articles)