I've just been using a simple python script which feeds each pnm file to pnmtops and concat's the output into a huge array which is then feeds to ps2pdf. Works pretty well and really simple.
On 10/19/06, Kristian Fiskerstrand <n...@kfwebs.net> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > Greetings list, > > I recently purchased an Epson Perfection 4490 Office W/Document Feeder > (ADF) and it is working very nicely using iscan ( > http://www.avasys.jp/english/linux_e/dl_scan.html ) . > > The reason for getting this scanner in the first place was a discussion > on this list where it was recommended, so thank you. > > Now, I only have one question with regards to it, and that is merging > multiple images into a single PDF file. When scanning I get files in the > format somename-####.jpg , .pnm or .png depending on the format I > specify. and I would very much like to merge them into a single file to > send out. > > I've tried to get this to work using a couple of different approaches. > Using ImageMagick's convert was one of them, both into PDF directly and > into PostScript and convert it to PDF using ps2pdf afterwards, but both > of these approaches were un-successful in the terms of acceptable > output. I tried adjusting -density and -page but I still don't get > acceptable output from my 300dpi scans. > > In addition I tried a perl script called jpg2pdf, which is supposed to > generate "albums" from multiple images, but that as well was unsuccessful. > > After that I considered creating my own online PDF-service using FPDF ( > http://www.fpdf.org/ ), but the initial testing shows that the cropping > gets all wrong. That said this is the approach that has gotten me the > furthest as of yet and that I'm most likely to persue unless someone has > a good suggestion for me. The downside is of course the transfer of > > 1MB image files and downloading the resulting PDF file again. > > Yours sincerely, > > - -- > - ---------------------------- > Kristian Fiskerstrand > http://www.kfwebs.net > - ---------------------------- > http://www.scanners-on-linux.com > http://www.secure-my-email.com > http://www.secure-my-internet.com > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6-svn4282 (GNU/Linux) > > iQIVAwUBRTeZMBbgz41rC5UIAQgDMw//U9RzhuQwHJ7YwKL5wA5/6OHCvcK1XTmZ > iuAjtYcNW5g7rKUZKpAlkxT9TmhEhSTTFWVpJ8e7MIq5CnmJG07FLUu1CVMRrWDa > nHzfgw3EqvhUZEzH24Ws2wfOWj1dc+3OAsKnDUC9sl73A+cgvWPQUAD8Ed69qlPw > 6HkyNcy5ey7HfPyLK1CWQstSq7V7d8HZcF+7iIFExLOF89NN68bcX2/Yuvc0tCz5 > hV5EbjAocX0jbMf9n7zXWla8+acEKlTnxbNZotixiRwAVaGUueXa+075S2+8h7cM > iFuLD2XFlCWk7dIPkNuS4yIuY1+tUobLuDJaN+SKbiYYDE/9/aPKZU2Y9NSC4vpU > T8NJyAohEiizj+rQRFWD64NYf4tr5p/qItzACXR1fiqNoZAmJ+e/80J9QvTDRLPq > vTitz9N5tgiyC19+XkN8CiXVkqf4F1dnt9nAxW6BfrMYwF5HTLvnImiQeqelh77q > 4246U4UBFW9DFhntR6GY3YIKrIQbX///JvCkaMIEnwgf1Nugb7m12q2LRcillz4T > aemnxWY1WteiNS5lsCU16JbVDRzHM4IzYWSeHYQwc8b6VGRIEC0fVzhPbS1vNgam > eCfUqVCpq5vLisYeCRYpnDTtF9bBCMPeUvhiE09dif93yS9CO770kfqJJ3WNW5W7 > D/QhrtiqmrU= > =zjBG > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to sane-devel-requ...@lists.alioth.debian.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/attachments/20061019/ff905728/attachment-0001.htm From n...@kfwebs.net Thu Oct 19 17:09:53 2006 From: n...@kfwebs.net (Kristian Fiskerstrand) Date: Thu Oct 19 17:10:34 2006 Subject: [sane-devel] Merging multiple images into PDF In-Reply-To: <45379930.8030...@kfwebs.net> References: <45379930.8030...@kfwebs.net> Message-ID: <4537b161.7000...@kfwebs.net> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote, On 10/19/2006 05:26 PM: > Now, I only have one question with regards to it, and that is merging > multiple images into a single PDF file. When scanning I get files in the > format somename-####.jpg , .pnm or .png depending on the format I > specify. and I would very much like to merge them into a single file to > send out. I ended up just using PHP and FPDF, if anyone wants it they can grab the file at http://dev.kfwebs.net/convert.phps . I just run it locally as php -f convert.php and it converts all the *.jpg files in the folder into a PDF file. 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