Looking for simple windows scan (multiple pages) to one pdf application?

Question

I would like to find some simple scan software for a windows machine that can scan to pdf, but I would like it to do batch or multiple pages into one big pdf. I saw a couple questions on scan to pdf software, but did not see anything talking about scanning to large multiple page pdf's.

EDIT: I am surprised there are not more options out there. Do many of the scanners/all in one devices come with included software that perform this function?

EDIT 2: I tried Scan2PDF and it locked up on me multiple times in the middle of the scan job and then gave me non-english error messages. Otherwise, I liked how simple the app was, just select number of pages and hit ok. Any other success stories out there?

Answer 1

Canon scanners come with a tool called CanoScan Toolbox. It can generate multi-page PDF files.

VueScan is the name of a tool that comes to my mind. It's not compatible with all scanners (most of them are supported; compatibility list here; for Windows, WIA scanners are supported). Unfortunately is not free. But it has the feature "Scanning to a multi-page PDF file".

Apparently (I did not try), Scan2PDF is free and can do it.

Answer 2

Thanks. I found the checkbox in the CanonScan software.

Scan to a file. Press the PDF settings button. check the multi pdf box.

When you scan it will ask if there is another page after each scan.

Answer 3

If you can find a piece of software that you are happy with that can scan to a Microsoft Office file format such as .DOC, you can use OpenOffice.org (free) to convert the .DOC file into a .PDF file.

Answer 4

My recommendation:

PDFill PDF Tools - a free PDF Toolbox to Merge, Split, Reorder, Encrypt, Decrypt, Rotate, Crop, Reformat, Header, Footer, Watermark, Images to PDF, PDF to Images, Form Fields Delete/Flatten/List, PostScript to PDF, PDF Information, Scan to PDF, and Create Transparent Image.

The interface is a bit cluttered but the software is excellent and a 'must have' if you're working a lot with PDFs.

Answer 5

CutePDF Professional has a "Scan to PDF" feature with a multi-page setting. It can also resume multi-page scanning by appending scanned pages to an existing PDF.

Answer 6

Try Fast Scan to PDF. It's fast, simple, lightweight and reliable.

Answer 7

This blog had the best documented suggestion of the simple and sweet iCopy.

I tried all the others and many more, and only this worked flawlessly. I already have used CutePDF free for a decade which acts as the "to pdf" converter after you get your pages all scanned in with iCopy.