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dougyyz
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March 24, 2026
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Scan paper At-A-Glance (2 page per day) Calendars using Epson Document scanner

  • March 24, 2026
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I have 30 years of desktop calendars from my father’s estate.  These are “At-A-Glance” paper desktop bundles, with 2-days per page.  These are loose leaf, 3.5” x 6”.

 

I want to scan them using Epson document scanner (high speed - not flatbed). The challenge is to combine each 2-page day into a single page of the PDF, ending with 1 master PDF file of the entire year.  This may require some script to reorganize the pages. Example - right-hand page of day 1 is the left-hand page of day 2.   This goes beyond a mere stitch function.  It’s stitching 2 pages together after the pages have been shuffled into the correct sequence.

 

If I attempt to organize each page after scanning, then combine pages, I’ll most surely have a jumble.  I can accomplish this with camera scanning or flatbed, but this slows the process considerably.

 

I hope someone has already found the solution.  Would greatly appreciate any info.

 

Thank you.

 

Doug

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    Karl Heinz Kremer
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    Karl Heinz KremerCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    March 24, 2026

    If you can come up with an exact algorithm of how to assemble the final pages, this can be done with a script. The trick here is that Acrobat does not (at least not without any 3rd party plug-ins) have any imposition capabilities besides making a booklet when you print. You will have to create new page, and then add two form buttons to the page that match the size of your pages that you want to place on the new page. You can configure these buttons to be inactive, and use an image as their button face. And, in the last step, you import your 3.5x6” PDF page as the button face. You repeat that for the 2nd half of that page. Once the whole document is assembled, you then flatten the document and therefore removing the interactive feature of the buttons. You end up with a “normal” PDF document. 

    This can all be scripted. 

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    dougyyzAuthor
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    March 24, 2026

    I think I understand your process. I’m still faced with the challenge of creating individual files per day - and - each page contains a partial of one day, and a partial of the following day.  It’s the sequencing that has me stuck.

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