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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Volunteering to port Kooka to KDE4
From:       Kåre_Särs <kare.sars () iki ! fi>
Date:       2009-10-19 5:59:41
Message-ID: 200910190859.41583.kare.sars () iki ! fi
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Hi,

On Monday 19 October 2009, Tony Brown wrote:
> Well just one more user use case for you...
> I often have mutiple pages that I wish to convert into a multiple page
> pdf file. I don't have an auto-document feeder, just a flatbed
> scanner. It seems that emailing scanned pages in a pdf file has become
> the new "fax machine"
> The current workflow is...
> 1. scan each page with skanlite to jpeg ( skanlite doesn't support
> save as tiff, IIRC )]
> 2. convert each page file from jpg to tiff ( using imagemagick )
> 3. join each page tiff file into a single multi-page tiff (tiffcp)
> 4. convert that into a pdf ( tiff2pdf )
> ...which all requires a bit of knowledge about the commands required.
> An app that automates that in a way that a noivce could use would be
> more than great!
> 
If I'm not mistaken, I think imagemagick can convert directly from jpeg to 
pdf. So the work-flow would be:
1. scan each page to jpeg
2. convert *.jpg outfilename.pdf

But, that is not a novice friendly approach :(

There is an application called kopier in playground/graphics/kopier/ that does 
save multiple page PDFs. I have not checked it lately, so I don't know in what 
state it is.

-- 
Kåre Särs
 
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