Does anyone know how to turn a folder of images into one pdf file quickly? Last time I did this I had to manually put each image into a powerpoint show and export that to pdf, which was a huge bitch.
What I’m trying to do is scan a book and turn it into a pdf file. Does anyone know of a better way to do this? Thanks.
This should make it simple…
Yeah, but that software makes no mention of joining the PDFs into a single file.
OP:
I will caution against creating IMAGES and converting them to PDFs.
The file size will be enormous and I don’t think that’s how you’re supposed to do what you are trying to accomplish.
You need to scan to OCR (optical character recognition) which will scan characters of text and import them AS TEXT, which you can then create a PDF from. The benefit of this method is that you can scroll through a text document MUCH faster than a PDF of images (each page being an image, I mean).
If the PDF is going to be 20 pages or less, you can keep them as images, otherwise I would suggest OCR scanning and doing what I suggested.
If scanning IMAGES, I would also look at the DPI and not set it to greater than 96, because any greater and A) the file sizes will start to get big, which means B) the PDF will be overly large and performance will suffer on any machine trying to scroll through the PDF document.
Oh cool, that looks sweet. Thanks a lot!
[quote]PonceDeLeon wrote:
Yeah, but that software makes no mention of joining the PDFs into a single file.
OP:
I will caution against creating IMAGES and converting them to PDFs.
The file size will be enormous and I don’t think that’s how you’re supposed to do what you are trying to accomplish.
You need to scan to OCR (optical character recognition) which will scan characters of text and import them AS TEXT, which you can then create a PDF from. The benefit of this method is that you can scroll through a text document MUCH faster than a PDF of images (each page being an image, I mean).
If the PDF is going to be 20 pages or less, you can keep them as images, otherwise I would suggest OCR scanning and doing what I suggested.
If scanning IMAGES, I would also look at the DPI and not set it to greater than 96, because any greater and A) the file sizes will start to get big, which means B) the PDF will be overly large and performance will suffer on any machine trying to scroll through the PDF document.[/quote]
It creates exactly as large a PDF file as the total filesize of your selected images is.
It works just fine if you have a bunch of images that have the same resolution, just remember to change the page size settings to match that res.
My 03’ built computer has no problems with large PDF files so I have no idea what you are talking about regarding performance issues.
Edit: To clarify… Ponce, I am not saying your solution isn’t better, it’s just not what the OP was asking for.
Edit2: Personally, if I had a big bunch of images I needed to showcase, I’d load them into a program called CDisplay.
It is smooth as hell and you can customize the settings to fit pretty much any preference. Just install the program, load files innit (if they’re in alpahabetical or numerical order there won’t be any hassle) and either view as is or save for later use.
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You can always script it if you know how. I would use imagemagick and pdftk.
for x in *pdf; do convert $x ${x%jpg}pdf; done; pdftk *pdf cat output book.pdf
Is this for print or for web?
The easiest way is if you have Adobe Acrobat Professional.
Allows you to create a PDF from multiple images.
Better if you have Photoshop to size and correctly optimize your images first.
What software do you have to work with?