[Mageia-dev] Creating PDFs from a scanned document

[Robert Fox]

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