Re: how to scan a book

2011-01-05 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 06:20:24PM -0500, Long Wind wrote: I have a digital camera I want to scan a book how to convert image files to pdf or other formats? which software should I use? I've recently been told that there is a software called 'unpaper' to help in such cases

how to scan a book

2011-01-04 Thread Long Wind
I have a digital camera I want to scan a book how to convert image files to pdf or other formats? which software should I use? Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

(solved)Re: how to scan a book

2011-01-04 Thread Long Wind
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Paul Cartwright if you take JPG pictures, you can open up OpenOffice Writer, import the JPEGs into a DOC SAVE-AS PDF.. -- Thank Paul Cartwright ! I'll try Writer later on. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: (solved)Re: how to scan a book

2011-01-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Long Wind wrote: Paul Cartwright wrote: if you take JPG pictures, you can open up OpenOffice Writer, import the JPEGs into a DOC SAVE-AS PDF.. Thank Paul Cartwright ! I'll try Writer later on. That is a good suggestion. But it sounds tedious to me. ImageMagick can convert images to

Re: (solved)Re: how to scan a book

2011-01-04 Thread Simon Hollenbach
That is a good suggestion.  But it sounds tedious to me. Im afraid you missed the point. The OP wants to make the images become text. If I did, excuse and correct me pls. Though I dare to say the described method will most likely be not put into practice. Without a trained monkey noone would

Re: (solved)Re: how to scan a book

2011-01-04 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 01/04/2011 06:59 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: $ convert file1.jpg file1.pdf nice, I just tried that on a jpg it worked great. And pdftk can concatenate them. $ pdftk file*.pdf cat output combined.pdf You can install them with: $ sudo apt-get install imagemagick pdftk I don't have

Re: how to scan a book

2011-01-04 Thread godo
On 01/05/2011 12:20 AM, Long Wind wrote: I have a digital camera I want to scan a book how to convert image files to pdf or other formats? which software should I use? Thanks! Hi, you can convert images to pdf with 'convert': $ convert your-image.jpg your-pdf.pdf -- Bye, Goran Dobosevic

Re: (solved)Re: how to scan a book

2011-01-04 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 16:59 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: Long Wind wrote: Paul Cartwright wrote: if you take JPG pictures, you can open up OpenOffice Writer, import the JPEGs into a DOC SAVE-AS PDF.. Thank Paul Cartwright ! I'll try Writer later on. That is a good suggestion. But