# Trouble with scanner, need answer fast **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 23, 2010, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trouble-with-scanner-need-answer-fast/526145 "2010-01-23T18:56:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trouble-with-scanner-need-answer-fast/526145/1 "2010-01-23T18:56:03Z")
Using a Brother scanner, model number MFC 9320 CW. Want to scan multiple pages into one file. Instead, each page comes up as an individual file. Please advise? ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trouble-with-scanner-need-answer-fast/526145/2 "2010-01-23T19:00:45Z")
You need software that stitches it together and even then you would have to have individual files to do it. are you trying to scan a much larger image? ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trouble-with-scanner-need-answer-fast/526145/3 "2010-01-23T19:04:49Z")
Just papers. 81/2 and legal. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trouble-with-scanner-need-answer-fast/526145/4 "2010-01-23T19:15:32Z")
Scanning multiple pages into one file won’t work. A graphics file isn’t supposed to get that big. You could get maybe two or three pages in a graphics file. No more. You need document management software. Something that lets assign tags to the image. ID #, Name etc. We use a expensive system at work. There are cheap versions out there. google personal document management software A cheap/dirty approach is to use a slideshow program like Thumbs Plus. For $50 you can assign a couple tags to each file and view in a slideshow. But, for serious office work, you need professional software. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trouble-with-scanner-need-answer-fast/526145/5 "2010-01-23T19:16:09Z")
Photo Shop Elements will do it or you could look for [shareware that will make panoramic images](http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/panorama/Panorama_Creation_and_Stitching_Tools.htm). If this is something you need to do a lot of then you’ll want to get a page feeding scanner (assuming the pages are loose). ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trouble-with-scanner-need-answer-fast/526145/6 "2010-01-23T19:25:16Z")
If you have Adobe Acrobat Pro (not the Adobe Reader freeware), you should be able to scan the entire thing into one PDF. In v8.0 it’s Document \> Scan to PDF. I’ve done this using my Brother MFC 9700 (with document feeder). ---
**Author:** ![Chief\_Pedant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@Chief\_Pedant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chief_Pedant)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trouble-with-scanner-need-answer-fast/526145/7 "2010-01-23T19:37:41Z")
Assuming you want pdf files, I am pretty sure Primo pdf will concatenate pdf files for you. [PrimoPDF - PDF Converter - #1 Free PDF Creator](http://www.primopdf.com/download.aspx) Another alternative is find any program which will do so and then download a free trial version for a one-time job. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trouble-with-scanner-need-answer-fast/526145/8 "2010-01-23T23:01:04Z")
Here is a free,\* but rather labor intensive, way to do it. Open a blank Microsoft Word document and drag each page image, one-by-one, in order, into it. You should find that you get one image per page (unless your images are very small). I find it useful to set the margins on the Word document narrower than the default value, but it is not vital. Also, if appropriate, and if you want to, you can drag the corner of the image to make it fill the page better. If you want the end result as a PDF you can use a free program like [CutePDF](http://www.cutepdf.com/) (there are many alternatives) to “print” the document to a PDF file. \*Assuming you have Word. Most other word processors would probably work too, but I have found this a lot easier to do with Word than with WordPerfect (even though I much prefer WordPerfect for actual writing). ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trouble-with-scanner-need-answer-fast/526145/9 "2010-01-24T00:42:14Z")
Thank you for the answers. It’s actually not my printer, but I showed this thread to the person who asked, and she’s going to do Adobe Acrobat.