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[Hans van der Merwe <hvdmerwe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 23:53 -0500, David Gersic wrote:
> On Tue, July 31, 2007 6:58 am, Hans van der Merwe wrote:
> > I have a lot of semi-useful documents that I want to archive using my
> > flatbed scanner.
> >
> > Im willing to manually place each piece of paper on the scanner but
> > need
> > some software to manage the capture - bind - output to PDF part.
> 
> If your scanner is supported, then everything you need is available. Here's a 
> script to get you started:
> 
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> echo "Insert page on scanner..."
> read p
> echo "Scanning..."
> scanimage --resolution 300 > page.pnm
> 
> echo "Making PostScript file..."
> convert -density 300 page.pnm page.ps
> 
> echo "Converting to PDF..."
> ps2pdf page.ps $1.pdf
> 
> # Cleanup...
> rm page.pnm page.ps
> 
> echo "Done!"
> 
> 
> convert is part of the Image Magic package. ps2pdf is, if I recall correctly, 
> part of the Ghostscript package. I don't recall where scanimage comes from, 
> but you probably already have it.
> 
> If you have multiple pages you want to end up in one PDF file, scan them as 
> page1.pnm, page2.pnm, page3.pnm, etc. until you have them all, then use 
> 'convert -density 300 page*.pnm page.ps' to build the intermediate PostScript 
> file out of them.
> 
> 


Ok, so the answer is to start looking into Kommander and roll my own.
Thanks for the script.

Writer or Kooka or xSane cant do multi page scan - well the last time I
checked.
And Kooka saves/prints horribly to PDF.

Thanks




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