Re: scan to pdf
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Matt Price wrote:
> hey folks,
>
> I need to scan in some documents and then distribute them
> electronically as pdf files. It's pretty important thatthe new file
> look just like the original, so I don't want to do something clumsy
> like save the individual pages as tiff files form gimp/sane and then
> paste them into openoffice (though I'll do that if I have to).
>
> what do other folks do?
>
> matt
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I use convert to make PDF's from the scanned TIFF's. It's not pretty, but
it's adequate for my needs. The script I use is at:
http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin/tips/src/pdfscan-pl.txt
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