Software to Run Any Document Scanner

If you have a document scanner, but you don't have the software for it, consider installing VueScan, available here. The drivers for thousands of document scanners are included in the program.

Not Another PDF Scanner

Not Another PDF Scanner 2, availabe here, is an open source program that should help you connect to a wide array of document scanners. NAPS 2 comes in particularly usefully when you are working with a device that will not do duplex scanning - fails to image both sides of a two-sided hard copy.

With NAPS 2 you scan in the odd numbered pages first, then flip the document and scan the even numbered pages. After both sides of the documents have been scanned, select 'Reorder . . . Interleave', and the pages will be re-arranged in the correct numerical order.

If you have a ADF that will only scan one side of a page, then when setting up the profile to scan a document, set the paper source to ‘Feeder’, not ‘Duplex’.

Under Advanced options, DO NOT select the checkbox to 'Flip duplexed pages'.

Rapid PDF Count

Tonight, I tested out Rapid PDF Count, a utility from Traction software, available for download here. A license costs $80. The software is designed to generate a count of the number of pages in a set of multiple PDF files. It will process all PDF files in a selected directory which has multiple subfolders.

Under setup . . . options, you can check off a box which will set the utility to also generate a word count for each of the PDF files.

The list Rapid PDF Count generates can be exported. It's a good way of finding which files in a directory have not be made text searchable. Note there's a field which indicates whether or not there are searchable words on every page of a PDF file.