"Chirayu Krishnappa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I need to scan documents with pages having printed matter on both > sides. It is easiest to stack them in the autosheet feeder and let it > scan. I end up with one file (say A.pdf) containing the odd pages in > sequence. Similarly, I can end up with B.pdf containing the even pages. > I want to combine them into result.pdf which contains A.1, B.1, A.2, > B.2, A.3, B.3, ... (A.1 = page 1 of A.pdf). > > Does someone know a simple way to achieve this? I noticed the other > thread on this newsgroup about merging lots of pdf files and > multivalent tools and pdftk were mentioned. However, I could not find a > way to do this using them. I am interested in another free tool or a < > 25 lines python script (which may use any freeware library) to do the > same.
I face exactly the same problem. Based on examination of the pdftk man page I *think* it can be done by something like (untested): pdftk A.pdf burst output %04d_A.pdf pdftk B.pdf burst output %04d_B.pdf pdftk *_?.pdf cat output combined.pdf assuming fewer than 10,000 pages per document, of course. I would be interested in an alternative approach which does not generate a ton of intermediate pdfs. -- Mark Jackson - http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~mjackson It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. - Calvin Coolidge -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
