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How to Scan and Merge Two-Sided Documents into a Single PDF with AI

Turn a multi-step scanning chore into a simple conversation. Use the AI-powered Warp terminal to control your scanner and automatically merge front and back pages into a perfectly ordered PDF.

How to Scan and Merge Two-Sided Documents into a Single PDF with AI

Tools Used

Warp
02Step-by-Step Guide
1

Install and Configure NAPS2

Install NAPS2 (Not Another PDF Scanner 2), a free tool that provides command-line control over your scanner. Create a rule in Warp telling it to always use NAPS2 for scanning tasks.

2

Scan the First Side of Documents

Place the stack of papers in your scanner's document feeder and type a simple command into Warp to scan the odd-numbered pages.

Prompt:
scan the documents from the feeder and save it to this directory as this file name
3

Scan the Second Side of Documents

Flip the stack over, place it back in the feeder, and repeat the command to scan the even-numbered pages into a separate file.

4

Merge the Scanned PDFs

Give Warp a final instruction to combine the two PDF files. Warp will write and execute a Python script on the fly using the PyPDF2 library to interleave the pages into a single, correctly ordered document.

Prompt:
Now put together the odd pages and the even pages and just make the math practice test out of it.

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