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.

jEdit

If you are looking for an alternative to the free text editor NotePad++, try jEdit, available for download here. It's also free!

jEdit is quite different than NotePad++ and has many unique features. You can use a built-in macro to copy lines which only contain a particular string.