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Rajagopal Swaminathan | 12 Jul 2012 16:34

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Request for Multi-page image editing FLOSS

Greetings,

Scenario:
I have scanned a book in a4 size (set-1 of files)
I have scanned separately other sizes -- say a3 and a1 (typical
foldouts in a book) (set-2 of files)

Now I want to make a single file containing all the pages in set-1 and set-2

Is there software to do that.

I know Acrobat does it. I dont want it.

I am flexible about file format (If needed jpg/Multi-page TIFF etc.)

Any suggestions on suitable app for Centos 6.x or Ubuntu 12.x LTS?

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Shrinivasan T | 12 Jul 2012 19:40

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Re: Request for Multi-page image editing FLOSS

> Scenario:
> I have scanned a book in a4 size (set-1 of files)
> I have scanned separately other sizes -- say a3 and a1 (typical
> foldouts in a book) (set-2 of files)
>
>
How many pages that book has?

For example, if the book has 100 pages, you have 100 a4 images, 100 a3
images and 100 a1 images.

Am I right?

> Now I want to make a single file containing all the pages in set-1 and
> set-2
>
>
Do you want to stitch all the 100 images as a single file?

> Is there software to do that.
>
>
Gimp can do the stuff.

Explain your requirement with some more details.
It is tough to get your need from your query.

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Rajagopal Swaminathan | 12 Jul 2012 20:28

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Re: Request for Multi-page image editing FLOSS

Greetings,

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Shrinivasan T
<tshrinivasan@...> wrote:
>> Scenario:
>> I have scanned a book in a4 size (set-1 of files)
>> I have scanned separately other sizes -- say a3 and a1 (typical
>> foldouts in a book) (set-2 of files)
>>
>>
> How many pages that book has?
>
> For example, if the book has 100 pages, you have 100 a4 images, 100 a3
> images and 100 a1 images.

Thanks for the response.

Fictitious example:
no. of a4 (actually little smaller) say 100 sheets
No. of a3 foldouts about 23 sheets
No . a1 sheets about 8 or so

Total no of sheets 131

The resulting document should have 131 pages: say PDF file with 231
pages (considering that each sheet of a4 is two sided and others one
sided)

No OCR needed. (BTW, OT, anybody aware of good devanagari -- hindi,
marathi, sanskrit -- OCR for partially handwritten text? -- tesseract

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Rajagopal Swaminathan | 12 Jul 2012 20:38

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Re: Request for Multi-page image editing FLOSS

Greetings,

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan
<raju.rajsand@...> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
>
> Oh. yes, indeed I will post by findings. If I am successful.
>

Stumbled on gscan2pdf..Need to test drive it.
https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/gscan2pdf/

http://gscan2pdf.sourceforge.net/

Will post experiences when through.

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Shrinivasan T | 12 Jul 2012 20:45

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Re: Request for Multi-page image editing FLOSS

> Total no of sheets 131
>
> The resulting document should have 131 pages: say PDF file with 231
> pages (considering that each sheet of a4 is two sided and others one
> sided)

> > Do you want to stitch all the 100 images as a single file?
>
> No. and yes. Not stiching. Yes a single file with multiple pages.
>
>
So you need to convert all the images in a folder into a single pdf file.

the utility 'convert' from the package imagemagick can do this.

convert *.jpg images.pdf

for further info, see here.
http://dancingpenguinsoflight.com/2010/02/converting-multiple-images-to-one-pdf-on-linux/

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Rajagopal Swaminathan | 12 Jul 2012 22:13

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Re: Request for Multi-page image editing FLOSS

Greetings,

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Shrinivasan T
<tshrinivasan@...> wrote:
> So you need to convert all the images in a folder into a single pdf file.
>
> the utility 'convert' from the package imagemagick can do this.
>
> convert *.jpg images.pdf
>
> for further info, see here.
> http://dancingpenguinsoflight.com/2010/02/converting-multiple-images-to-one-pdf-on-linux/

Thanks again.

I think I am wrestling with a multipage TIFF file.

I doubt if JPG format supports it.

Anyways, in for an interesting rendezvous, I guess.

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sivakumar bharadhwaj | 13 Jul 2012 06:22

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Re: Request for Multi-page image editing FLOSS

I use PDF shuffler.

If your file format is .pdf, you can try this, this is very easy.

(if they are not .pdf, then, this is not the answer).

with warm regards
s.sivakumar
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Rajagopal Swaminathan | 20 Aug 2012 11:32

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Re: Request for Multi-page image editing FLOSS

Greetings,

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 9:52 AM, sivakumar bharadhwaj
<calmsiva@...> wrote:
> I use PDF shuffler.
>
> If your file format is .pdf, you can try this, this is very easy.
>
> (if they are not .pdf, then, this is not the answer).
>

I tried it. seems good on Centos6.

Now time to target the unsuspecting users ;)

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Arun Venkataswamy | 13 Jul 2012 07:01

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Re: Request for Multi-page image editing FLOSS

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan <
raju.rajsand <at> gmail.com> wrote:

> Scenario:
> I have scanned a book in a4 size (set-1 of files)
> I have scanned separately other sizes -- say a3 and a1 (typical
> foldouts in a book) (set-2 of files)
>
> Now I want to make a single file containing all the pages in set-1 and
> set-2
>
>
Assuming you want to create a PDF file,
You have a one stop solution to your problem : imagemagick.
It is as simple as:
convert -adjoin -page A4 *.jpg book.pdf

But first you need to convert the A3 and A1 size images to A4 either by
scaling them or by splitting them into 2 (for A3) or 8 (for A1) parts. You
could use imagemagick to do this too. Use the -crop feature if you want to
split. Use the -scale feature to scale.

Regards,
Arun
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Arun Khan | 13 Jul 2012 07:20

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Re: Request for Multi-page image editing FLOSS

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan
<raju.rajsand@...> wrote:

>
> I am flexible about file format (If needed jpg/Multi-page TIFF etc.)
>
> Any suggestions on suitable app for Centos 6.x or Ubuntu 12.x LTS?
>

Besides what you have found and others have suggested, there is
PDFedit <http://pdfedit.cz/en/index.html>

It is in Debian repos and I suspect it is available for *ubuntu
flavors, not sure about CentOS.

I have used it in and the results were fine for what I wanted to accomplish.

A search for "pdf stitch" also gave PDFsam:
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfsam/>
Screen shots look promising.

YMMV with both of the above.

Please do write back about whichever solution works out for you.

HTH,
-- Arun Khan

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Rajagopal Swaminathan | 13 Jul 2012 16:33

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Re: Request for Multi-page image editing FLOSS

Greetings,

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Arun Khan <knura9@...> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan
> <raju.rajsand@...> wrote:
>
> YMMV with both of the above.
>
> Please do write back about whichever solution works out for you.
>
> HTH,
> -- Arun Khan
>

Thank you very much for all those who replied.

I will get back to the list after my experiences with it.

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Rajagopal Swaminathan | 20 Aug 2012 11:36

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Re: Request for Multi-page image editing FLOSS

Greetings,

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Arun Khan <knura9@...> wrote:
>
>
> Besides what you have found and others have suggested, there is
> PDFedit <http://pdfedit.cz/en/index.html>
>
> It is in Debian repos and I suspect it is available for *ubuntu
> flavors, not sure about CentOS.
>
> I have used it in and the results were fine for what I wanted to accomplish.
>
> A search for "pdf stitch" also gave PDFsam:
> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfsam/>
> Screen shots look promising.

Ok, I am not able to lay my grubby hands on that ever moving ubuntu box ;)

On Centos 6.3:

I did bump into imagemagick as one of the posters pointed out. It is a
swiss army knife. And it produces humongous file sizes.

Then there is a pdftk.

and both are multi-platform. That helps me a bit to script out the tasks.

Currently off that task for few days. will update

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Rajagopal Swaminathan | 20 Aug 2012 11:41

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Re: Request for Multi-page image editing FLOSS

Greetings,

Did I mention I faced (yet unresolved) issues with the TIFF files
generated by MODI (Microsoft Office Document Imaging)?

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