On Wed, 2025-02-12 at 12:15 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
I am mainly filling in tax forms and scanning in tax paperwork to PDF
I seem to remember just using Evince to fill in the blanks in some forms, and it'd generate a ready-to-send/print PDF.
And my ordinary scanning software was quite capable of putting scans into a PDF. I hadn't looked at doing OCR with that, too. As far as I was concerned that aspect was "not my problem." Let *them* deal with that pain.
Actually, trying to make any PDF coherent in that fashion is fraught with problems. They like to construct the things in seemingly random columns of text.
Various things that generate multi-purpose PDFs with a printable or readable version for people to look at, and a quite separately embedded data for machine assessment.
If I wanted any separate PDFs joined into one, I used the pdfunite command line tool. Though my scanning software was quite happy to keep adding scanned pages into one PDF file.