Creating a folder from a 64-page scan

I have scanned a 64 page folder, by releasing the staples and scanned all the pages in a document scanner. Now I’m looking for an easy way to split the pages, sort them and create a PDF.

Example: Front and Back are scanned together.
Page 1 and 63 are scanned together.
Page 2 and 62 are scanned together.
…and so on…

When I have done this kind of work before I have splitted it all manually in Photoshop, and stitched all together in Acrobat Pro. But there surely must be an easier way?

:thinking:

Not easy, but open in Preview and arrange them in “miniature-view” (left side).

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I agree with @Hoppel, you should be able to do this in Preview.

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When you say “scanned together”, you may mean “scanned both onto one page side-by-side”. When you say “split … manually” you may mean “split … in two halves manually”.

You would benefit in this case by a PDF app or a PDF shell script that can be scripted to crop the pages. I can recommend pdfCropMargins.

Here is an example AppleScript that I use to reset the margins on a PDF document from an app that always seems to generate a PDF with 0.5in left margin and 1.5in right margin.

(*
	crop PDF document margins
	author: jjw
	version 1.0
*)

use AppleScript version "2.4" -- Yosemite (10.10) or later
use scripting additions

property pdfcrop : "/usr/local/bin/pdf-crop-margins -gsp '/usr/local/bin/gs' -p 0 -a -72 -mo -o "

on run {}
	
	tell application "Finder" to set theFile to selection
	if theFile is {} then return
	if the kind of item 1 of theFile is not "PDF document" then return
	
	tell application "Finder" to set theFileAlias to selection as alias
	set theFilePath to POSIX path of theFileAlias
	set theFileDir to my get_sourceFolder(theFilePath) & "/"
	
	set theSource to the quoted form of theFilePath
	set theFolder to the quoted form of theFileDir
	set pdfCMD to pdfcrop & theFolder & " " & theSource
	
	set theResult to do shell script pdfCMD
	
end run

on get_sourceFolder(theFilePath)
	set tid to AppleScript's text item delimiters
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "/"
	set theReturn to (text items 1 through -2 of theFilePath) as text
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to tid
	return theReturn
end get_sourceFolder


JJW