Renaming Files In 2-Number-Steps ... how to? (w. or w/o Automator)

Dear all,
I have Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10 and a question: I have a 2-pages-per-sheet-PDF-document. I exported the file as single .jpgs in my Adobe Acrobat 11 program. Now I have 10 sheets (20 pages) as jpg. I want to batch crop them with Photo Batch for Mac which is not my problem. I now have 10 left pages (1-3-5-7-9-...) and 10 right pages (2-4-6-8-...).
I made the left - hand - pages first, they are now 001.jpg, 002.jpg, 003.jpg etc.
I thence made the right - hand - pages, they are now 011.jpg, 012.jpg, 013.jpg, etc.
Now I could rearrange everything in one single PDF with 20 pages / 20 sheets, but then I had to manually sort everything in the right way. I need help for the following:
How can I batch rename a heap of files to odd numbers in ascending order?
How can I batch rename a heap of files to even numbers in ascending order?
Then I could just hit the merge button in Acrobat and did not have to sort everything in Adobe :-)
Thanks for help!
Yours truly Holger Rogoll

Hi,
Use this AppleScript to rename JPEG's files:
set tFolder to choose folder with prompt "Select the folder which contains JPEG's file"
tell application "Finder"
    set jpegs to document files of tFolder whose name extension is "jpg"
    set tc to (count jpegs) div 2
    set tmpF to make new folder at tFolder
    set rJpegs to move items (tc + 1) thru -1 of jpegs to tmpF -- move right - hand - pages to new folder ( to avoid name conflict when renaming)
    set j to (tc * 2) - 1
    repeat with i from tc to 2 by -1 -- rename left, skip the first item because the name of the first JPEG is OK
        set name of item i of jpegs to (text -3 thru -1 of ("00" & j)) & ".jpg"
        set j to j - 2
    end repeat
    set j to 2
    repeat with i from 1 to (tc - 1) -- rename right, skip the last item because the name of the last JPEG is OK
        set name of item i of rJpegs to (text -3 thru -1 of ("00" & j)) & ".jpg"
        set j to j + 2
    end repeat
    move document files of tmpF to tFolder -- move right - hand - pages to the original folder
    delete tmpF -- delete the created folder
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