As Henning and Andras have suggested, converting scans to a PDF =20 document is trivial (even though I would not use TeX for this), appending to a PDF =20=
is a totally different matter. This is a pretty complex job. You need a PDF library that allows you to read a PDF file and modify it's contents. There are a number of commercial packages that can do this, but they are all fairly expensive, and not open source. Karl Heinz On Dec 11, 2003, at 2:34 PM, John wrote: > I have a suggestion for the Sane frontends (xsane?) > and that is a scan and append to pdf feature. > > It is quite often that I want to scan a few pages and > send them by email, preferably in one .pdf file that > can be read by everyone. > > What I often do is scan each page and add as jpeg to a > word processing document. This works but is time > consuming and boring and technically unneccesary. > > I would like a utility that scans one full A4 page and > writes it to a pdf, then ask me if I want to scan > another one, if [yes] then I want the pdf to contain > both pages. > > Do you agree this is something useful ? Is there a > solution already ? > > (I think this can almost be done with a script, but I > am not sure about the append to pdf part...) > > = _______________________________________________________________________=20= > _ > BT Yahoo! Broadband - Save =A380 when you order online today. Hurry! =20= > Offer ends 21st December 2003. The way the internet was meant to be. =20= > http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=3D21064/*http://btyahoo.yahoo.co.uk > > --=20 > sane-devel mailing list: [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to [email protected]
