2 scan passes of a 50-page double-sided docs to merge to a PDF?

First scan pass on my scanner will generate the first PDF (name it PDF-A) with pages 1,3,5,7....49.
Flip over the whole pile.
2nd scan pass will generate the 2nd PDF (name it PDF-B) with pages 50, 48, 46, 44...2.
Any easy way to combine, merge and/or "reverse-interleave" PDF-A and PDF-B to make a PDF with page 1,2,3,4,5,6....50 in Acrobat, or using some third party software?
Or I have to manually and time-consumingly rearrange the pages to create one?
Or I have to buy an expensive duplex scanner that would take up my desk space for such few-times-a-year jobs?
I search all over Internet and I was surprised this wasn't even mentioned.

YAY! Acrobat 8 Professional does it automatically and I have paid for it (FREE)!
one pass, prompt to flip over, 2nd pass, then it makes the PDF I want, and does the OCR (make searchable) too.
(I have been using the scanner software to make PDF, never knew I could scan from inside acrobat.)

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in the box "Sides", I select "Both Sides" and check the box for "Prompt for scanning more pages".
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I followed your advice and dowloaded new drivers for my Canon MF4880dw.
The filename was different than yours, because the model was different.
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