scan a document into a pdf

[Bill Davidsen]

Tethys wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 5:05 PM, JOYCE POLZIN <foxec208 at 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.

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