Neither Linux nor Microsoft recipients of PDF documents I have created with Libre Office (File > Export as PDF...) have experienced difficulties viewing the files.
You can scan images an then insert them into your document (Insert > Picture > File) or you may scan the image directly to the document with (Insert > Picture > Scan). Then export the document as PDF.
----- Original Message ----- Tethys wrote:
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 5:05 PM, JOYCE POLZIN foxec208@wowway.com wrote:
Is there an application other than gscan2pdf (which doesn't work)
You don't need a standalone application. This should suffice:
scanimage | pnmtops | ps2pdf - output.pdf
Obviously, each of those commands can take various flags to control resolution etc. Check the man pages for details.
For multiple pages, it gets more complicated, I like to create a tiff of each page, combine them into a multi-page tiff with tiffmerge, then run tifftopdf to produce final output. I have friends who import them into office and write pdf from that.
Haven't found anything I like for OCR, unfortunately, so things can be edited properly.