I wrote this article sometime, ago. Since then, I upgraded my OS from Debian Sarge to Lenny to Squeeze and now, Wheezy. Since this article, I discovered that Debian has a pre-packaged software called, gscan2pdf. This graphical software package greatly simplifies the scanning of multiple documents and creating a single pdf file. I use this program all the time and it works great. If you want to save yourself a lot of effort, this is the way to go. Using this package with another package called, pdfmod, provides me with many of the same functions I routinely utilize in Adobe Acrobat Pro at work.