[Boatanchors] PDF Writer Needed

[Jim Haynes]

On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Bill Cromwell wrote:

>>
>> If the source document is in poor condition, you would be better advised to
>> scan to TIFF, clean it up, and then convert to PDF.  Or just leave it as
>> TIFF.  If you don't intend to distribute it, there's no advantage and several
>...
> I use a H-P flatbed scanner (single sheet) and Linux operating system
> with Open Office. Open Office was recommended in another post and I

I also use Linux and a flatbed scanner (Canon LIDE 35).  What do you use
to do the cleaning up?  Can you do that from within OpenOffice?  I use
a rather archaic viewer, xv, and it's editor.  Then there are some
tiff-to-pdf programs out there that I've been using.

Something else you can try, considering that the original manual is
falling apart, is to copy it on a good copier that lets you play with
the gray scale.  Some copiers do a remarkable job of preserving and
enhancing a document, and then you can scan it for further processing
without having to handle the original.

Jim W6JVE

jhhaynes at earthlink dot net