In previous version of Mac OS you could output a note to a PDF and get all the scanned documents included in the PDF as a multi page PDF document. Now it only includes 1 scan in the PDF, all the other pages are omitted from the PDF.
This has to be a bug, surely? It was one of Notes best features.
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Posted on Nov 21, 2023 1:05 AM
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I have been struggling with the same problem recently. After scanning multiple physical pages into one Notes document on my iPhone, the "Export as PDF" option in the Notes file menu on my MacBook only exports the first scanned page into the PDF. The solution is to click on the downward-pointing triangle next to the note title in the Notes app and to select "Open attachment". This will open a PDF containing all scanned pages in Preview.
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Question marked as Top-ranking reply User level: Level 1I have been struggling with the same problem recently. After scanning multiple physical pages into one Notes document on my iPhone, the "Export as PDF" option in the Notes file menu on my MacBook only exports the first scanned page into the PDF. The solution is to click on the downward-pointing triangle next to the note title in the Notes app and to select "Open attachment". This will open a PDF containing all scanned pages in Preview.
Show more Less User level: Level 9 66,249 pointsdhronis wrote:
Could you please paste a screenshot (of an example) of the "The solution is to click on the downward-pointing triangle next to the note title in the Notes app and to select "Open attachment" you mention?
Thank you in advance
I believe this is what you were asking for:
Show more Less User level: Level 1This works for pulling more than 1 page into the same document, but it reverts back to a "photo" image, hence making the document very large (even for a 2-page document), limiting it for attachment purposes. Do you know if there are any other solutions for it to stay as a grayscale image?
Show more Less User level: Level 9 66,249 pointsScan from where? I often scan documents into Notes using my iPhone, and if the scan has multiple pages, it will export to pdf with those pages. I have not seen any change in this regard in Sonoma.
It seems that you may have scanned separate documents instead. It stands to reason that they would then export separately as well. Again, I don't think that has changed.
Now, it is easy to put all these pages together in one pdf, if they are separate. It can be done manually, by opening one of them in Preview, open the Sidebar, and dragging the other pages.
And it can be done with a shortcut or service: combine pdf pages. I always have that in my Quick Actions contextual menu. Select a bunch of pdf files, control-click, choose Quick Actions->Combine PDF Pages.
I probably did that using Automator, but it is easy to do it in Shortcuts: