Scan to PDF using gscan2pdf in Ubuntu

March 5, 2007 · General · Email This Post

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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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