On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 10:06:45AM +0000, Mark Rogers wrote:
On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 at 23:36, Chris Green cl@isbd.net wrote:
So can anyone suggest how I can do this? I can very easily scan the English bits as required, what I need is a handy tool for putting a number of scanned images onto a page.
pdfjam might do what you want.
If you look through the ALUG archives it came up before when I was needing to reformat a royal mail pricelist and from what I can recall it'll probably have the tools you need if I understand your goal correctly.
It hits the same problem as other PDF manipulation programs I've tried, if you save the resulting PDF 'page' then the size is all wrong for printing. PDFs seem to take their page sizing with them somehow.
Although as a one-off I'd probably end up looking at Bev's suggestion and just combine jpegs using Gimp or similar.
The best I've managed so far is to scan the columns of text as JPEG images, then use ImageMagick 'convert +append ....' to concatenate them into a single image, then ImageMagick again to convert the JPEG image to PDF. This results in a single page PDF file which I can then add to my resulting multi-page PDF document.