[Mageia-dev] Creating PDFs from a scanned document

Sat Mar 31 12:05:41 CEST 2012

On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 10:59, Robert Fox <list at foxconsult.net> wrote:
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+> Just a quick question to the experts out there . . .
+>
+
+This would probably be better on -discuss than -dev
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+> I have an HP J5780 All-in-One device - and use the HP Device Manager
+> software under Mageia -  When I scan a document into a PDF, the
+> converted document is rather large (5MB) in comparison to the same
+> document scanned under Windows 7 and the HP scan-to-PDF feature (465Kb)
+> -  Just wanted to know why is this and can I influence how compressed or
+> compact the PDF document is under Cauldron?
+>
+
+Do you scan at the same resolution?
+The best compression would be to use OCR to get text instead of images but
+I wouldn't trust it to be accurate
+
+I used to scan with "Acquire Images" or XSane and then paste the scanned
+> graphic into a LibreOffice document and then create a PDF directly or
+> use ps2pdf14 to convert a "print to file" postscript output to PDF
+> (which results in a comparatively small PDF)
+>
+
+Why not generating a PDF directly from XSane?
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