Re: S.A.M. PDF

[salfter@salfter.diespammersdie.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <ce9c44dd.0410141608.5d353e10@posting.google.com>,
Ralph Glatt <julian814@hotmail.com> wrote:
>2) How do you get the individual scans to combine into one file?

The last time I needed to scan a document into a PDF, I did something like
this:

1) Create multiple high-resolution monochrome TIFFs with either the software
   that came with the scanner or the software that's built into Windows.
2) Use tiffcp (part of libtiff, http://www.libtiff.org/) to combine the
   multiple TIFF files into one TIFF.
3) Use tiff2ps (also part of libtiff) to convert the TIFF to PostScript.
4) Use Ghostscript (http://www.ghostscript.com/) to convert from PostScript
   to PDF.

(I suppose you could also use Acrobat Distiller for the last step, but
Ghostscript is free (as is libtiff) and often does a better job anyway.)

Ghostscript and libtiff are both available as part of Cygwin.  There might
also be native Win32 builds of each, but I've not gone there.  I suspect
that libtiff and Ghostscript also run on Mac OS X; they might even ship with
it.

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