Multipage scan to pdf?

[Dave Smey]

Hi all,

Can anyone recommend a prog for multipage (black-and-white) scan to pdf?
(Or just assembling a numbered series of .TIFs to pdf?)

My scanner (epson) comes with something that is mostly well-designed, except
that it does not compress the images and thus produces huge files.

My current workaround is to assemble a multipage document in Freehand and
export that - it gives me the filesize I want but is quite tedious.

Thanks,
Dave Smey
Brooklyn, NY

 

[Eric]

Hi all,

Can anyone recommend a prog for multipage (black-and-white) scan to pdf?
(Or just assembling a numbered series of .TIFs to pdf?)

My scanner (epson) comes with something that is mostly well-designed, except
that it does not compress the images and thus produces huge files.

My current workaround is to assemble a multipage document in Freehand and
export that - it gives me the filesize I want but is quite tedious.

Thanks,
Dave Smey
Brooklyn, NY

My scanner (a Canon) comes with a program that scans straight to the
printer. I scan each page and tell it to "print" to FreePDF
<http://www.shbox.de/> and then use its "add to next" feature to
capture them all in one PDF. There is also a mode where you can have
it keep adding until you tell it to stop, but I'm comfortable with the
extra click or two the way I'm doing it.

 

[Dave Smey]

My scanner (a Canon) comes with a program that scans straight to the
printer. I scan each page and tell it to "print" to FreePDF
<http://www.shbox.de/> >

Thanks, that works pretty well.

I also figured out how to use Irfanview's batch scan to make a numbered
series of CCITT 4 TIFFs and compile them into a PDF with a command-line prog
called "c42pdf"
http://c42pdf.ffii.org/

I think I like FreePDF for smaller jobs, but the c42pdf for big jobs that
might easily get screwed up in the scanning process.

Cheers,
-DS