Hold the scanners

[Antonio Carlini]

> All of this is fairly easy if you have full-version Adobe 
> Acrobat.  I'm not
> saying it's not time consuming, but it's far less difficult 
> than many people
> (who have never used full-version Acrobat, but have only used 
> the reader)
> would suspect.

Back in my previous job the scanner produced non-G4-TIFF-in PDF.
For my later scans I use to use Adobe (V5??) to extract
G4-TIFFs and then pull the pages back in.

The two issues were:
 (1) you can only select so many pages to pull in in one go
     (maybe 50 or so) and that gets a little wearing when
     trying to stitch back a 400 page document.

 (2) sometimes it would miss out a page - so I had to eyeball
     everything afterwards (there was no obvious pattern to
     the dropped page(s)).

With 4GB of data to verify, that may take some time!

> I MIGHT do it if I get access to the files.  Downloading 
> 1,000 jpegs will
> probably take a lot more time than consolidating them into a 
> PDF file, which
> can then be fairly indexed.

A lot of the work can be automated. Converting the TIFFs to
G4-TIFF (if needed) and then producing a PDF can all be
done with ImageMagik and various other tools. But you need
to know where document A begins and ends, unless you fancy
going through large pdf documents, pulling out doc-A and
then doc-B and then doc-C ...

Antonio

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Antonio Carlini arcarlini at iee.org