Epson printer on Mavericks

[ryoliang81]

I have a Epson WF-2530 all-in-one which has a feeder. The feeder allows me to scan up to 30 pages (1 sided) at one go. To scan 2 sided, I scan the pile of paper on 1 side first (pg 1,3,5,7 ...) then flip over and scan the other side (pg 30,28,26,24 ...).

Epson provides a program call Epson scan in OS X that does this scan and when finish scanning, I just need to click a "rearrange" button and all the pages will be rearranged nicely (pg 1,2,3,4,5 ...) into a single PDF document.

I upgraded to Mavericks recently and Epson Scan has stopped working. I search online and it seems like it will take a long time for Epson to fix that.

Is there any other program in OSX that does similar things?

In summary:
I have a Epson printer that has a feeder that do single page scans. I want to scan 2 sided documents.

 

[davidktw]

I have a Epson WF-2530 all-in-one which has a feeder. The feeder allows me to scan up to 30 pages (1 sided) at one go. To scan 2 sided, I scan the pile of paper on 1 side first (pg 1,3,5,7 ...) then flip over and scan the other side (pg 30,28,26,24 ...).

Epson provides a program call Epson scan in OS X that does this scan and when finish scanning, I just need to click a "rearrange" button and all the pages will be rearranged nicely (pg 1,2,3,4,5 ...) into a single PDF document.

I upgraded to Mavericks recently and Epson Scan has stopped working. I search online and it seems like it will take a long time for Epson to fix that.

Is there any other program in OSX that does similar things?

In summary:
I have a Epson printer that has a feeder that do single page scans. I want to scan 2 sided documents.

Use a command line tool call ImageMagick. You can obtain this tool by Installing a Mac OS X packages manager known as MacPort that will bring you into another arena of Unix system in Mac OS X.

Install XCode to get a GCC compiler.
After installing MacPort, you can open up your Terminal and type the following command

sudo port install Imagemagick

Enter your administrator(current user) password and the Macport package manager will download all the necessary dependencies, compile when necessary and finally you will get a tool called "convert", found in /opt/local/bin

What you need to do is scan all your documents in sequence page 1,2,3,.... store them in sequence like this page01.jpg, page02.jpg, etc...

Run the following command to merge all the image files into a single PDF as such

convert *.jpg compiled.pdf

Looks like quite an hassle for most consumer, but it's legal and free and very powerful tool.
If you can find alternatives, go ahead, if not, this is one possible tool for you to try.