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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