Q: creating good-quality PDFs from scans?

[Joel Oliver]

Joel Oliver wrote:
> Eric wrote:
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>> D. R. Evans wrote:
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>>> I am in the process of migrating one of my few remaining activities from
>>> Windows to Kubuntu: scanning and filing documents.
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>>> I have never tried to perform this kind of opertaion under Linux before,
>>> and I'm having a problem with the quality of the final stored files.
>>>
>>> I got kooka working fine, and the image files that it creates at a 300dpi
>>> scan look really good. BUT I can't figure out how to generate high-quality
>>> PDFs from them.
>>>
>>> I have tried printing to the PDF print-to-file printer installed by
>>> Kubuntu, but the quality of the output frankly sucks. Instead of crisp,
>>> clear characters (which is what appears on the image produced by kooka),
>>> it's like I'm looking at a low-quality JPG with artifacts around the
>>> characters.
>>>
>>> I've tried messing with all kinds of settings, but nothing seems to make
>>> any difference at all.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to get PDFs that are of a
>>> similar quality to the original images?
>>>
>>>   Doc
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>> I've never had that problem. Maybe you might want to look at Xsane if 
>> your can't figure out what is going wrong when you use Kooka.
>>
>> Eric Jackson
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> I have the perfect solution (I hope)....  Look into the gscan2pdf 
> package.  This quickly allows you to scan large amounts of paper right 
> into high quality pdf's!  The unpaper package removes ugly paper borders 
> and gocr adds character recognition... so a simple:
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> sudo apt-get install gscan2pdf unpaper xdg-utils gocr sane
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> should add it in with all options you may need to try it out.  Hope it 
> works for you.
> Joel.
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Link to a good article on gscan2pdf:

http://www.pdfdownload.org/pdf2html/pdf2html.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.linux-magazine.com%2Fw3%2Fissue%2F85%2FElectronic_Document_Archives_with_Gscan2pdf.pdf&images=yes