How to scan and create PDFs

Hello,

working with a scanner and Xsane is fine if you just want to create jpegs,
tiffs etc.

But is there any way to create a PDF file out of a number of scans? I am
figuring a workflow available just like with Adobe Acrobat. This Tool
allows to scan a multiple-pages- document sheet by sheet and output all to
a single PDF.

Is there any solution available for LINUX?

forencontact1@arcor.de adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie to post:

> Hello,
>
> working with a scanner and Xsane is fine if you just want to create
> jpegs, tiffs etc.
>
> But is there any way to create a PDF file out of a number of scans? I
> am figuring a workflow available just like with Adobe Acrobat. This
> Tool allows to scan a multiple-pages- document sheet by sheet and
> output all to a single PDF.
>
> Is there any solution available for LINUX?

OOo can create PDF`s, have you tried that?

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> forencontact1@arcor.de adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie to post:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > working with a scanner and Xsane is fine if you just want to create
> > jpegs, tiffs etc.
> >
> > But is there any way to create a PDF file out of a number of scans? I
> > am figuring a workflow available just like with Adobe Acrobat. This
> > Tool allows to scan a multiple-pages- document sheet by sheet and
> > output all to a single PDF.
> >
> > Is there any solution available for LINUX?
>
> OOo can create PDF`s, have you tried that?
>
> --
> Mark
> Twixt hill and high water
> N. Wales, UK
> Novell Support Forums SysOp
>


What is OOo ? Open Office ?
I Know that Open Office can create PDF. But what I want to have is an
application which allows me to scan a page and convert it to PDF in one
step. I am not aware that Open Office officers such a convinient workflow.

On 03/16/2006 forencontact1@arcor.de wrote:
> But is there any way to create a PDF file out of a number of scans?

On the command line, you need scanimage and tiff2pdf. I found a couple of URLs googling,
like this one:
http://dot.kde.org/977380888/1100697351/

HTH
Uwe

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