Creating PDF's from scanned image files

13 Jan 2002

I think I have cracked the issue of converting scanned images into PDF 
using only freeware!

First off get the imagemagick toolset from www.imagemagick.org
You will also need c42pdf available at http://c42pdf.ffii.org/

c42pdf will create pdf files from group 4 encoded tiff images (only). To 
get to those images use imagemagick convert :

     convert -compress group4 <any image file> image.tif
     c42pdf image.tif

will create image.pdf. Read the docs to see how to build multi page PDFs.

This has worked for a bunch of files for me so far.

  -- hbp