> Hi, > > I have a couple of loose A4 papers I would like to collect in a pdf. Is there > a way to do this automatically? > The ADF works, but I would have to press change document for each page, which > is a little bit annoying...
This simple script will do everything you stated that you want to do: --------------------------------- #!/bin/bash # Written by M. Peck Dickens # Copyright 2000 InVestment Solutions, Inc. # Published under the GNU license # Using this script, convert only consumes core as described below when file # format interchanging: # PDF 45MB, PNG 25MB, PS 23MB, TIFF 23MB, HTML 23MB, GIFF 23MB scanimage --batch for file in *pnm do a=$(date +%T-%d_%m_%Y) convert $file PDF+:$a.pdf mv PDF* $1-$a.pdf done exit 0 ------------------------------------- However, to use this script, you need SANE, ImageMagick as well as a *current* release of Ghostscript. Best Marvin Dickens
