On Thursday February 22 2007 7:30 am, Peter Flynn wrote: > Sahan Gunasinghe wrote: > > My name is Sahan Gunasinghe. My problem is: > > I need to insert documents that i scanned into pdf files, > > PDF is generally an end-of-line (non-reusable) format*. > > It's best always to scan to an image format like JPG or PNG, and > save those files. Then if you need a PDF, make it from the JPG or > PNG files afterwards. You can then also re-use the JPG or PNG > images in other applications like OO. > > * Actually not wholly true: you can sometimes extract the images > back out of a PDF using pdfimages or similar, the same as you can > sometimes get the text back with pdftotext (or both with pdftohtml > -- see http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net/). But it's safest to treat > PDF as a final-form of data, not an intermediate form. > > ///Peter
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