the PDF::API2 library for perl is pretty useful. i use it to do this sort of thing everyday for our apps here. it can re-write the xref table, etc.
the problem is the freaking huge filesizes you will get. perhaps you should instead look at one of the multi-image in single file formats, like tiff. are you doing bw, gray, or color scans? allan On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Jonathan Buzzard wrote: > > [email protected] said: > > As Henning and Andras have suggested, converting scans to a PDF > > document is trivial (even though I would not use TeX for this), > > appending to a PDF 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. > > The trick is not to finalise the PDF (i.e. write out the XREF table) till > you are done adding the pages. Something of a limitation, but one > that most people could live with in at least the short to medium term. > Something like the Panda PDF library is just fine for this sort of > application. > > As an interim measure if you wish to append pages to existing PDF's you > could always open a new PDF file, and copy the pages over from the > original before continuing, and when finished overwrite the original. > > JAB. > > -- "so don't tell us it can't be done, putting down what you don't know. money isn't our god, integrity will free our souls" - Max Cavalera
