Re: Making a PDF out of a load of JPEGs

On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 06:36:39 UTC, "James J. Weinkam" <jjw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Bob Eager wrote:
I have a number of scanned images, of an ancient academic paper. I want
to generate a PDF from these images (one page per JPEG).

Does anyone have any recommendations for the best way to stitch these
together? All I can think of is a WordPro document with one frame per
page, then generate a PDF from that...

I would use Papyrus instead of Wordpro, but I guess that amounts to about the
same thing :)

Yes..and I have WordPro and I know it!

You could also try gocr to convert the jpg's to text. If the images are fairly
good quality and you zoom to the right size gocr can do a pretty good job.

Lots of symbols and diagrams, so not an option; I had considered that.
.

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