Preview scans multiple pages but only shows the first one

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Here are the steps to save multiple images in Preview into a single multi-page PDF.

1. Select all of the images you want in your PDF, right-click and choose open with Preview
2. In Preview's Sidebar drag the images into the order you want them to appear in your PDF
3. Select/highlight all the images to be included in the PDF document; otherwise only a single image may end up the PDF document
4. Then from the "File" menu choose "Print Selected Images" (or "Print..." in recent OS X versions) and then "PDF > Save as PDF"

Herb

I'm having the same problem. When I use Preview to scan a multi-page document (using either the scanner's document feeder or one page at a time using the flatbed), with "Combine into single document" checked on the Preview scanner window, only the first page shows up in the PDF file created by Preview. I believe this started happening after upgrading to OSX 10.12 (although admittedly I don't scan every day so it may have started after an earlier upgrade) -- Preview used to create a PDF document containing one PDF page for each scanned page, which is the behavior I expect. If I use the "Open Scanner" button from the "Printers & Scanners" page in System Preferences, and scan a multi-page document (all other settings being the same as I set in Preview), the resulting PDF file contains multiple pages as I expect. I'd prefer to use Preview. I can turn "Combine into a single document" off, then scan each page into separate PDF documents, then manually add the 2nd and subsequent pages to the first PDF document (the one containing the first page), but clearly that's inconvenient and unnecessary, particularly when preview used to work the way I expected.

Did you ever figure out the solution to this? I started having this same issue within the past several months whether I use preview, Image Capture, or opening the scan/print utility from system preferences. Shoot, I even just went out and bought a new scanner because I thought my old one was the issue, but same problem.

I'm having the same problem, and the solution advanced here is no help. The problem is that the extra images never show up in Preview, so there's no way to select them. Please post here if you find a solution.

Here's how I was able to get it to work:

Instead of using Preview, I used Image Capture (that's what Preview uses, but somehow it worked differently; to load it choose Spotlight Search and type in "Image Capture"). Make sure that the "Combine into a single document" checkbox is checked (also the duplex checkbox if you're scanning multi-sided docs through the document feeder).