Re: Scanning

[Jerry <awanderin@yahoo.ca>]

rhohler <rick.hohler@gmail.com> writes:

> A couple of questions.
>
> 1)  I have Apple II cards I'd like to scan and I have taken pictures
> with a digital camera which didn't give me the detail I'd like.  Does
> a flat bed scanner harm cards in any way with the light running
> across?  I realize with EPROMs I need to cover them up before
> scanning.
>
> 2)  I have some manuals I'd like to scan.  I was thinking 300DPI
> resolution would be good.  Can anyone recommend some good software
> (Acrobat is very highly priced), maybe open-source, to assembly the
> images into a PDF?

I wrote a python program (for Linux) that takes a list of image files
of various types and assembles them into one PDF file.  If you don't
like any of the other options mentioned, I can send it to you.  As I
don't have a web-site, it's not generally available, but I'll send it
to anyone interested.

This utility relies on the following open-source programs:
 - unpaper
 - Net-PBM utilities (pnmtops, ppmtopgm, pnmnorm, giftopnm, jpegtopnm,
   pngtoppm) 
 - ps2pdf (part of ghostscript)
 - tiff2pdf (libtiff-tools package)
 - pdftk

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Jerry     awanderin at yahoo dot ca