Creating PDF's from scanned image files

From: Ben Franchuk <bfranchuk_at_jetnet.ab.ca>
Date: Sun Jan 13 13:52:09 2002

Hans B Pufal wrote:
>
> I think I have cracked the issue of converting scanned images into PDF
> using only freeware!
>
> First off get the imagemagick toolset from www.imagemagick.org
> You will also need c42pdf available at http://c42pdf.ffii.org/
>
> c42pdf will create pdf files from group 4 encoded tiff images (only). To
> get to those images use imagemagick convert :
>
> convert -compress group4 <any image file> image.tif
> c42pdf image.tif
>
> will create image.pdf. Read the docs to see how to build multi page PDFs.
>
> This has worked for a bunch of files for me so far.
>
> -- hbp

But will it work under windows?
-- 
Ben Franchuk - Dawn * 12/24 bit cpu *
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Received on Sun Jan 13 2002 - 13:52:09 GMT

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