On Sun, Mar 03, 2019 at 11:18:27PM +0000, B D wrote:
Hi, First of all I must clarify that you have tried to find this user manual online and it's not available :)?
Yes, the provider actually told me explicitly that they don't provide (or even have) PDF/on-line versions.
If the above is true why don't you scan the pages extract clean text with tools mentioned before and then paste all to LibreOffice which will allow to save file as document. PDF is just an envelope in which you can have selectable text, images, etc. So you could even use scanned columns of text and align them on A4 in Writer and then save as pdf.
I did consider going this route but it would have been more laborious than what I actually did.
Imagemagic seams to be a sledgehammer bit to big for what you need :)
Possibly, but the sequence needed to make my all English printable PDF wasn't all that difficult:-
Scan enough bits (often simply five individual columns of text, but sometimes fewer columns plus some images) of the original to JPEG images. My scanner allows very simple selection of areas to scan using a 'marquee' so this was very easy.
Use ImageMagick's convert utility's 'append' option to combine the scanned JPEG images into a single image. Once I'd worked out the required options this was just repeating the same command line each time.
Use ImageMagick's convert utility to convert back to a single PDF page.
When all done combine all the PDF pages into a single PDF document.
OK, it's not searchable text but apart from that I have exactly what I want.