[email protected] said: > 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.
Yuck. In general for a text document this is a horrid way of doing it. The vast majority of pages are best represented as a B&W image. > 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. Actually what you want is to scan the page, and select what is graphics, have that added as JPEG over a backdrop of a B&W image for the text. Possibly even having only pictures added as JPEG, with other graphics added as 256 colour PNG's. I suspect a specific front end is called for here. > Do you agree this is something useful ? Is there a solution already ? Yes it is useful. > (I think this can almost be done with a script, but I am not sure > about the append to pdf part...) Well the trick is not to finalise the PDF till you are done. JAB. -- Jonathan A. Buzzard Email: jonathan (at) buzzard.me.uk Northumberland, United Kingdom. Tel: +44 1661-832195
