Split a scanned bundle into separate files

Everything was scanned in one pass and now it needs to be twelve documents. This reads the pages so the parts are searchable, then splits the bundle up.

• Recognition first, so every piece is searchable rather than a picture.
• One file per page, or set your own grouping in the instruction.
• The bundle never leaves this browser tab.

Reading before splitting, not after

Splitting first and recognising afterwards means running the recogniser once per piece, with a fresh start and the same settings reached independently every time. Reading the bundle once and splitting the result is both faster and more consistent, and it is the order the plan puts the steps in whichever way round you write them.

A page that already carries its own text is not re-read. The words are harvested off the page as the producer wrote them, which is more accurate than any recogniser, so a bundle that mixes downloaded pages with scanned ones costs only the scanned half.

Choosing where the breaks go

One file per page is the default because it is the only division a tool can make without guessing. Splitting by chapter or by heading sounds better and is a guess: a heading in a scanned bundle is a line of text that happened to be printed larger, and a guess that is wrong produces files that each contain the end of one document and the start of the next.

Say so in the instruction if you want a different grouping, such as every four pages. It is a sentence rather than a fixed macro, and the plan shows you what it read before anything runs.

Everything happens on this device. A bundle scanned in one pass is usually a drawer of somebody's personal paperwork, and it is the kind of file that gets uploaded to a free splitter without a second thought. Nothing here is uploaded, and nothing about the run survives the tab being closed.

Can I split at specific pages instead?

Yes. Name the pages in the instruction and the plan will show you how it read them before it runs.

How are the files named?

From the original name with a number appended. You can set a pattern in the instruction.

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