Recently I wrote about, so today I’d like to give Windows the same treatment. Of course, there are a huge number of applications out there that will do this, and if I had any brains I’d point you to some expensive one that would get me a referral fee. However I never claimed to be smart, so like the Mac tutorial, I am going to point you to some free and open source ways to do this. In the Mac tutorial, I limited myself to exclusively using functionality that was part of the operating system. I couldn’t find the equivalent in Windows, so if I have missed something obvious please let me know in the comments.

Merge multiple files into one PDF file with. Click the Create button on the left side of the task bar and select Combine Files Into A Single PDF. At the top left of the Combine Files dialog box, click Add Files and choose the files to include. Hold down the Control key (Windows®) or Command key (Mac OS) to add more than one file at a. Select up to 20 PDF and image files from your computer or drag them to the drop area. Wait until the upload and conversion processes are complete. Drag-and-drop file blocks to change the order of merging. When you are ready to proceed, click JOIN FILES button.

With all that said, let’s check out two free and open source ways to combine PDFs in Microsoft Windows:. PDF Split and Merge PDF Split and Merge (aka PDFsam) is a Java application that comes in two versions: basic (free) and enhanced (requires forum membership and a donation of at least 1 Euro). As the name implies, the application can do a number of PDF manipulation functions including splitting and (wait for it) merging.

We’re going to focus on the merging part. I don’t know what it is with open source software, but 9 times out of 10 the terminology/workflow that they use isn’t intuitive at all to a civilian. To start with, you need to chose a Plugin. So, we’re going to choose the Merge/Extract plugin. Then we’ll click the Add button and add the files that we want to combine (click the image to make it bigger). You then have a chance to change the order if you’d like.

Once you have your files how you want them, go down to the bottom of the screen and either type or hit Browse to select your destination file/folder. When you are ready to roll, hit the Run button. When it finishes, you will have the combined PDF file. Pdftk If working in the command line is more your style, pdftk is definitely for you.

I love their description of it: If PDF is electronic paper, then pdftk is an electronic staple-remover, hole-punch, binder, secret-decoder-ring, and X-Ray-glasses. Pdftk is a simple tool for doing everyday things with PDF documents.

Pdftk can do a whole assortment of PDF tools, but again we’ll be focusing on merging documents. It’s pretty simple., unzip the.exe file somewhere, go to the directory where your documents are, and issue a command similar to this: pdftk Scan.pdf Scan1.pdf cat output Combinedpdftk.pdf Here’s a screenshot of it in action: Et voila, here is the output: I could have also just thrown everything together into one PDF: pdftk *.pdf cat output Combinedpdftk.pdf As you can see, pdftk is a pretty powerful little application that [can do a lot more than what I have described here][6]. I’ll be writing more on it in the future. So, these have been two free ways to combine PDFs on Windows. Do you have another method that you like?

Let us know in the comments.

Thanks for the suggestions. I will look at each in detail but after just scanning the descriptions, they all seem to be directions/solutions for merging multiple PDFs into a single PDF file. I'm starting with an assortment of file types, not just PDFs. I'm trying to avoid having to convert hundreds of non-pdf files first into PDFs and then into a single PDF.

In other words, one person's file might have three word docs, four pdfs, one, web archive file, and 5.jpgs-- I need to combine all 13 of those files into a single PDF. And I have to put the original docs in a certain order so the pages of the final PDF are in a specific order as well. You'll need to dump all of those into a third party program that will allow you to organize and manipulate files. Best suggestion is try Scrivener. You can use the full demo for free on a 30 day trial, so it won't cost you anything to do one job.

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