On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 09:12:28AM +0000, Bev Nicolson wrote:
On 28/02/2019 22:21, Chris Green wrote:
I have a multilingual manual for a new tractor mounted mower. It's almost unreadable because the 'multilingual' is done by having five columns of text (one of each language) down the pages.
So I thought it would be easy to scan just the English columns and paste them together, five columns to a page, to make an English only version of the manual.
It's not at all easy!
There are very few programs that will 'merge' PDF pages and those that do seem to assume one is just trying to pack two or four complete PDF pages onto one sheet to save paper.
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. I was trying to do this using PDF but it may well be that other file types would be easier, I can scan to JPG, TIFF, PNM, etc. easily enough.
Would I be getting to wrong end of this stick by suggesting opening it with Okular and copy and pasting the text you want into another document?
Not entirely (the wrong end of the stick that is). I don't have Ocular because I don't run KDE but I could install it, however I guess there are alternatives in Gnome/XFCE.
However it's the destination is an issue isn't it? Can I copy several bits and then paste them into one 'page' which can be converted back to PDF? I want to end up with a multi-page document which I can print double sided so PDF would seem to be a good output format.