[Mageia-dev] Creating PDFs from a scanned document

Sat Mar 31 12:22:27 CEST 2012

On Sat, 2012-03-31 at 11:05 +0100, Pascal Terjan wrote:
+> 
+> 
+> On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 10:59, Robert Fox <list at foxconsult.net> wrote:
+>         Just a quick question to the experts out there . . .
+> 
+> 
+> This would probably be better on -discuss than -dev
+>  
+>         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?
+
+Thanks for the quick response - I posted to -dev only because I use only
+Cauldron on my machines to help with testing, and I though -discuss was
+more aimed at released versions (like Mageia 1)
+
+On a similar note, what ever happened to a standard PDF printer setup in
+the mcc (printerdrake is gone I believe) . . .  When I choose set up
+printers, I can only add physical and networked printers, but no option
+to add a PDF printer.  It was very helpful to have a generic PDF printer
+driver setup as a virtual printer (like PDFcreator)
+
+Anyway, I digress . . . . Thanks again.
+
+R.Fox
+
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