Scan to pdf on linux ubuntu

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A GUI to ease the process of producing a multipage PDF from a scan. gscan2pdf should work on almost any Linux/BSD machine.

To open gscan2pdf go to Applications - Graphics - gscan2pdf

Saves the selected or all pages as a PDF, DjVu, TIFF, PNG, JPEG, PNM or GIF.

gscan2pdf supports two frontends, scanimage and scanadf. scanadf support was added when it was realised that scanadf works better than scanimage with some scanners. On Debian-based systems, scanadf is in the sane package, not, like scanimage, in sane-utils. If scanadf is not present, the option is obviously ghosted out.

In 0.9.27, Perl bindings for SANE were introduced and two further frontends, scanimage-perl and scanadf-perl (scanimage and scanadf transliterated from C into Perl) were added.

If your scanner is not connected directly to the machine on which you are running gscan2pdf and you have not installed the SANE daemon, saned, gscan2pdf cannot automatically find it. In this case, you can specify the scanner device on the command line:

gscan2pdf --device [device]

Generally for HP scanners with an ADF, to scan from the flatbed, you should set "# Pages" to "1", and possibly "Batch scan" to "No".

Scan to pdf on linux ubuntu

Install gscan2pdf in Ubuntu with .deb file download from here :
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gscan2pdf/files/gscan2pdf/

or install from terminal :

~$ sudo apt-get install gscan2pdf
[sudo] password for i-cafe: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  curl djvulibre-bin gocr libacme-damn-perl libconfig-general-perl
  libforks-perl libgraphicsmagick++3 libgraphicsmagick3
  libgtk2-ex-podviewer-perl libgtk2-ex-simple-list-perl libgtk2-imageview-perl
  libgtkimageview0 libio-stringy-perl libjpeg-progs liblist-moreutils-perl
  libnetpbm10 libpdf-api2-perl libsane-perl libset-intspan-perl
  libsys-sigaction-perl libtiff-tools netpbm pdf2djvu perlmagick sane
  tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-eng transfig unpaper
Suggested packages:
  djvulibre-desktop graphicsmagick-dbg libtiff-opengl imagemagick-doc xfig
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  curl djvulibre-bin gocr gscan2pdf libacme-damn-perl libconfig-general-perl
  libforks-perl libgraphicsmagick++3 libgraphicsmagick3
  libgtk2-ex-podviewer-perl libgtk2-ex-simple-list-perl libgtk2-imageview-perl
  libgtkimageview0 libio-stringy-perl libjpeg-progs liblist-moreutils-perl
  libnetpbm10 libpdf-api2-perl libsane-perl libset-intspan-perl
  libsys-sigaction-perl libtiff-tools netpbm pdf2djvu perlmagick sane
  tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-eng transfig unpaper
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