Scanning on linux

The Manual Way

1. Scan to tiff file

    scanimage --format tiff --resolution 300 >> foo.tiff
   

2. Process pages with scantailor

3. Edit with gimp (optional)

4. Resize image and create pdf with tiff2pdf

    tiff2pdf -p A4 -F -o output.pdf input.tif
   

5. Bundle with pdftk

    pdftk 1.pdf 2.pdf cat output final.pdf
   

Other applications

• simple-scan
• gscan2pdf
• xsane