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 E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
