[ILUG] JPEG's to PDF?

[Dale Dunlea]

> > I have a collection of jpeg scans of some old documents that
> > we have at work, I was wondering if any body knew of a linux 
> > tool that would allow me to convert them to a pdf type book? 
> > Should I be looking to convert them to postscript and then to pdf?
>
> What I do is paste the jpg's into OpenOffice and convert them 
> straight to pdf format. Easy peezee. Works for jpgs, tiff etc
> 

If it's a large collection of scans, then it would take quite a while to
paste into OO. If the files are sensibly named, a 10 line php script
with a for loop should be able to automate it. So yeah, OO does the job
for one-offs, but for batch-processing, better to use a script.

Regards,
Dale.