Scanners rarely produce a single file. Even when you're scanning a 5-page document, you end up with 5 files (one per page) if your scanner is set to single-page mode, or you end up with one big file that's in the wrong order if the auto-feeder jammed halfway through.
The right tool for assembling scanned pages into one PDF depends on what you have.
If you have one file per page (single-page scans)
Open the Merge PDFs tool. Drag in all the files in the order they should appear. The first file becomes page 1, the second becomes page 2, and so on. The merge respects the order you set — drag to reorder if needed.
This is the workflow for most desktop scanners in single-page mode, and for assembling pages that were scanned at different times (for example, when a page got jammed and you had to re-scan it).
If you have one big file with pages in the wrong order
If your scanner jammed halfway through and produced one PDF but with the pages shuffled, the fix is to extract each page individually with the Split PDF tool, then merge them back in the right order with Merge PDFs.
This is more work but the only way to recover a bad auto-feeder scan without re-scanning the whole document.
If some pages came out sideways
A common scanner problem — pages fed at a slight angle come out rotated 90 degrees. The Rotate PDF tool rotates every page in a PDF by 90, 180, or 270 degrees. Use it after merging, when you can see all the pages at once.
There's no per-page rotation in this version — every page gets the same angle. If only one page is sideways, extract it with Split PDF, rotate it, then re-merge.
If your pages are phone photos
Phone photos of paper documents become JPEGs. Use the Photos to PDF tool to combine them into one PDF. The current converter uses the photo as-shot — if a phone photo came out sideways, rotate it in your phone's editor first.
For best results, photograph each page in good light, with the page filling the frame. Blurry or shadowed scans will compress poorly and be hard to OCR later.
Sign and send
Once merged, the result is one continuous PDF — one page count, one file, no watermarks or branding added. Ready to email, upload to a form, or send for signature.
DocShop deletes every upload and the merged result within an hour. The original scans on your phone or scanner are untouched.
Privacy note
Scanned documents often contain personal information (signatures, addresses, account numbers). DocShop processes the merge on an isolated worker with no human access and deletes the result within an hour. There's no archive, no training on your data, and no metadata sold to third parties.
For highly sensitive scans (medical, legal, financial), Pro tier adds password-protected share links and 90-day retention so you can pull the result back if you lost it.