Some Useful Scripts For Scanning

And Creating PDFs

bscan -- batch scan to multi-page pdf

Using scanimage from SANE, this bash script scans documents in batch mode to pnm image format, then processes the images, and finally outputs the images as a multipage pdf or in various other formats. Read More. Download

mkeBook -- make multi-page pdf eBook

Quickly assemble multiple pdfs into a single multi-page pdf with a clickable Table of Contents and Title Page. Uses LaTeX. Read More. Download

mbox2pdf -- convert mbox to pdf.

Perl script to create a hyperlinked pdf from an email mbox archive. Uses hypermail and LaTeX. Read More. Download mbox2pdf-1.10

Links

SANE -- Scanner Access Now Easy
scanadf -- SANE frontend for acquiring multiple images from scanner equipped with ADF
gscan2pdf -- a GUI to produce a multipage PDF from a scan. Written in perl.
batchscan -- uses zenity to design an interactive shell script for batch scanning.
pdf2ocr -- do Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on pdf(s) to make hOCR, then overlay with original. Usage: $> pdf2ocr file1.pdf file2.pdf [...]
pdftk -- PDF Tool Kit.
pdfjam -- collection of shell scripts for manipulating pages of pdf using LaTeX package "pdfpages".
Moreno Marzolla's Page -- tkScan.tcl and various scripts for cleaning up scans.
Daniel Stender's Page -- Creating ebooks from book scans …. on Linux.
xfmail2mbox.sh -- my local copy in case original link disappears in future.
Maildir2Mbox.pl -- my local copy in case original link disappears in future.