Less Painful Document To PDF Scanning

In need of scanning quite a few pages to pdf and without the scanning software that came with my printer and with a dead fax machine, I came up with the following fairly painless method. Noting here for future use:

  • Scan each page of the document via the command line cmdTwain:
"\Program Files\CmdTwain\cmdtwain.exe" page1.jpg
  • Convert the scanned jpg’s to a single pdf using ImageMagick:
"\Program Files\ImageMagick-6.4.0-Q16\convert.exe" -adjoin page*.jpg someDocument.pdf

2 Comments so far

  1. Greg Sydney-Smith on April 21st, 2009

    Glad to see CmdTwain being useful.

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