scan a document into a pdf

[Terry Polzin]

Is there an application other than gscan2pdf (which doesn't work)

[Jens Neu]

On 21.01.2013 19:05, JOYCE POLZIN wrote:
> Is there an application other than gscan2pdf (which doesn't work)

have a look at xsane, works for me.
-Jens

[Terry Polzin]

----- Original Message -----
On 21.01.2013 19:05, JOYCE POLZIN wrote:
> Is there an application other than gscan2pdf (which doesn't work)

have a look at xsane, works for me. 
-Jens

So how do you get the Portable Document Format (PDF) files readable in windoze? 
Other linux machines don;t have an issue reading them but the minute I send one to a windows user or file share both FoxIt and Adobe report that the file either is not a pdf or is damaged.

[Bill Davidsen]

JOYCE POLZIN wrote:
> On 21.01.2013 19:05, JOYCE POLZIN wrote:
> > Is there an application other than gscan2pdf (which doesn't work)
>
> have a look at xsane, works for me.
> -Jens
>
> So how do you get the Portable Document Format (PDF) files readable in windoze?
> Other linux machines don;t have an issue reading them but the minute I send one
> to a windows user or file share both FoxIt and Adobe report that the file either
> is not a pdf or is damaged.

I'm suspicious that there is an issue in xsane, since pdf I create with other 
tools work really well for both Windows and Mac. What does pdfinfo say about the 
file, anything useful? I swear I had a command called pdftopdf which was useful 
for bad stuff others sent me, but I can't find it, it is/was part of cups.

I use other software to write pdf, so I can't give you any more info that that.

[Tethys]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 5:05 PM, JOYCE POLZIN  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.

Tet

[Bill Davidsen]

Tethys wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 5:05 PM, JOYCE POLZIN  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.

[Mike Wohlgemuth]

On Mon, 2013-01-21 at 12:05 -0500, JOYCE POLZIN wrote:
> Is there an application other than gscan2pdf (which doesn't work)

I use simple-scan and have never had any issues.

Woogie

[ergodic]

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  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.