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