scan to pdf

[Byron Poland]

On 11/15/05, Troy Piggins <troy at piggo.com> wrote:
> I have xsane working fine, but it only gives options to save to
> tiff, jpeg, and ps etc.  I mostly scan to pdf format these days.  I
> ended up having to use gimp on a windows machine to print a jpeg
> image to a pdf creater print driver.
>
> What is the best way to save (scan directly to) pdf format in linux?
> In addition if there are multiple pages how to append them to the
> same pdf file?
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I scan to ps, then run ps2pdf on the result.

As for joining pages, check out pdftk.