An OSX script for converting and joining jpegs to pdfs. Useful for combining scans into documents for a paperless office.

merge_scans.sh

#!/bin/bash                                                                        
                                                                                   
MAX=$[$2+1]                                                                        
                                                                                   
for ((i = $1; i < $MAX; i++)) do                                                   
    #echo "sips -s format pdf \"Scan $i.jpeg\" --out \"Scan$i.pdf\""               
    sips -s format pdf "Scan $i.jpeg" --out "Scan$i.pdf"                           
done                                                                               
                                                                                   
PDFconcat="/System/Library/Automator/Combine PDF Pages.action/Contents/Resources/join.py"
                                                                                   
echo 'PDFconcat -s -o $3 Scan[$1-$2].pdf'                                          
`"$PDFconcat" -s -o $3 Scan[$1-$2].pdf`