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Re: document archiving w/ scanner



also sprach Andrew Perrin <clists@perrin.socsci.unc.edu> [2004.07.09.1752 +0200]:
> I use an Epson SU1640 Office, which includes a document feeder and
> can be connected via either USB or SCSI.  It works fine under
> debian, using the SANE backends, although the one put out by epson
> (the "epkowa" driver) works better than the epson one included
> with SANE.  I wrote a simple script to turn documents into PDF's;
> it's not exactly perfect, but it does the job:
> http://www.unc.edu/home/aperrin/tips/src/pdfscan-pl.txt

Since I assume PNM files to be graphic files, `convert`ing them and
`ps2pdf`ing them will result in PDFs storing image data. These PDFs
are not going to be searchable. Can you confirm this?

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