Trying to combine multiple scanned pages into a single file.
I’m trying to combine multiple pages I’m scanning into a single file.
MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 11.5
Scanned to PDF or as TIFF images? Some scanners or scanning software (e.g. VueScan Professional) have a Scan+ option to concatenate subsequent scans into a single multi-page PDF document.
- PDF
- Select each (using ⌘-key) scanned PDF in the order you want them combined and then right-click on the first selection and from the Finder secondary menu, choose Quick Actions : Create PDF. A new PDF will be created bearing the basename of the first selected PDF with a numeric 2 as a suffix. Rename.
- TIFF
- Apple provides a Terminal (command line) utility named tiffutil with macOS that allows one to concatenate TIFF images into a multi-part TIFF document that can be viewed in Apple's Preview when done.
/usr/bin/tiffutil -cat file1.tif file2.tif ... filen.tif -out mp.tif
When you use the Finder's Quick Look on a multi-part TIFF image, it will only show the first image, but Preview will show all of the images that tiffutil combined.