Separating Documents Using Blank Sheets

By placing a blank sheet of paper between the originals, you can divide the scanned data by blank pages and save them in separate files or folders. When scanning both sides of a document, a document with a blank page on one side will also be detected as a blank page. After separating, you can also delete unnecessary blank pages, and then save.

This section explains the job settings for a job that scans a blank sheet of paper between the third and fourth pages of a document, and then "splits the document before and after the blank page and saves them as separate PDF files”.

1. 1Display the Job Settings screen, and then click the 2. Save tab.

   

2. 2Set the File Type to PDF.

   

3. 3Select Apply job separation, set Blank Page as the Separator, and then click Separation Settings.

   

4. 4On the Job Separation Settings screen, select Delete a page for separator.

   Blank pages are deleted after separating.

   
   Note:

   • If you do need to save the pages used for separating, clear Delete a page for separator. However, the first page of the split file will be a blank page.

     

   • In Detection Level, you can select the blank page detection level from High, Medium, or Low. If the level is set to high, even light-colored or show-through documents may be detected as blank.

   • If Source is set to ADF - Double-sided, the Include the back page during duplex scanning item is displayed. Select this to separate double-sided scanned documents even when the back side of the document is a blank page.