Why you should be careful not use Bundledocs' merge facility

The Problem

If you have an old scanner which only allows you to scan in one page of a document at a time, so that you then have to combine the pages together into a single PDF as a separate operation, you should use PDF software to combine the pages before loading the document to your document management system.

Some document management systems (such as Bundledocs) have their own "merge" facility which would allow, for example, each page of a two-page document to be loaded separately and then be combined into a single PDF document using the system's "merge" function. However if this function is used, whilst the document appears when displayed in the system to have two pages, if, subsequently, a ZIP file of original documents is generated, one or other of those pages may be missing from the ZIP file. 

Avoiding the Problem

To avoid this problem you should not use a document management system's "merge" facility. Instead, if it is necessary to combine pages into a single document, this should be done before loading.

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