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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.

Install gscan2pdf in Ubuntu

You need to edit the /etc/apt/sources.list

sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list

add the following line save the file and exit

deb http://gscan2pdf.sourceforge.net/download/debian binary/

Now you need to update the source list with the following comamnd

sudo apt-get update

install gscan2pdf with the following command

sudo apt-get install gscan2pdf

This will install all the required packages.

If you want to open gscan2pdf go to Applications--->Graphics--->gscan2pdf

Once it open you should see the following screen

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7 Comments to “Scan to PDF using gscan2pdf in Ubuntu”

  1. Luca says:

    Great software
    Thank you so much

  2. guido dom says:

    How to change the ocr language from German (Duits) to Dutch (Nederlands)?

  3. Josh says:

    Guido: You need to install Tesseract’s Dutch language files.

    sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr-nld

  4. guido dom says:

    Perfect Josh, thanks from Nieuwpoort, Belgium

  5. MM says:

    Hi,

    This is a great linux app. I have and HP all-in-one scaner fax printer and it is so easy to scan as jpg and or covert to pdf. I think gscan is easier to use than xsane.

    Thanks!!!!

  6. Juan says:

    Thanks a lot!
    Intrepid i just did the
    sudo apt-get install gscan2pdf
    so easy.

  7. RB says:

    Saved the day after mucking abut with xsane tnx!

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