Mark Jackson wrote: > "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. >
Here is a page that offers a couple related scripts (one bash script, one DOS batch script) for doing this with pdftk in one swipe: http://www.accesspdf.com/article.php/2005020408520076 Sid -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
