[Scribus] OT: Collecting scanner output (.ps) in one pdf document

[Marvin Dickens]

Here is a script I wrote about 5 years ago
that uses scanimage which is the cli frontend
to sane. You should be able to modify it
to work with your epson stuff. You'll need
imagemagick installed. It outputs
pdf files:

-------- start bash script-----------

#!/bin/bash
 scanimage --batch
 for file in *pnm
 do
 a=$(date +%T-%d_%m_%Y)
 convert $file PDF+:$a.pdf
 mv PDF* $1-$a.pdf
 done
 exit 0

-------end bash script------------


Regards

Marvin Dickens



On Thursday 20 January 2005 5:57 pm, Sebastian Roeder wrote:
> I managed to get my scanner Epson Perfection 1260 working with xsaen and
> the sane-backend from epkowa.
>
> For university I often have to scan a lot of pages, which can be easily
> saved as one pdf document with the Windows software from Epson.
>
> Now I am trying to do this with my Gentoo Linux, too.
>
> I first tryied cups-pdf virtual printer - but this works only with root
> previlegs and is not very configurable. I can not collect files for
> output with this solution either.
>
> Now, I?m thinking about a solution with ps files. ps2pdf can create pdfs
> from postcript, the quality was good enough for my needs (I scan mostly
> text files, most important is that the files can be read with every
> Acrobat Reader on Win/Mac/Linux - I don`t need pre-press quality).
>
> What`s missing is a way to concate the files from the scanner page-1.ps,
> page-2.ps ... to one ps file.






> I don`t know exactly whether psutils can do this, pstill would might be
> an alternative possibility.
>
> Finally I?d like to end up in a little script, which I can give the
> basename of the files as an argument and it make the pdf of all the ps
> files with the basename in it.
>
> Example: scan2pdf exampledoc
> # This script will collect exampledoc-1.ps + exampledoc-2.ps ... and
> produce exampledoc.pdf
>
> I hope somebody of the pdf / ps pros here in the list can help me out or
> give me some pointers, as I am not very familar with ps /pdf and
> scripting at all.
>
> I have to mention that I can not use ghostscript-afpl, only "normal"
> ghostscript because afpl is kind of broken in Gentoo atm (doesn`t print
> with cups).
>
> Thanks for your help!
> Sebastian
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