Use multiple pages pdf as scanned answered sheets (Feature #66)

you can used this programs:
- pdf chain
- pdf sam

regards

Another suggestion: as PDF is only a container, extracting the included images can be done without modifying them using pdfimages from the poppler-utils debian package:

pdfimages scan.pdf scanroot

Alexis Bienvenüe wrote:

Another suggestion: as PDF is only a container, extracting the included images can be done without modifying them using pdfimages from the poppler-utils debian package:
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In some situations however, the resulting images will need 90° rotation...

Great.

Im my case, the resulting file is in format im-001-000.pbm: Netpbm PBM "rawbits" image data. Does AMC accept this format ? or do I have to convert it to jpeg ? or another ? which is the best way and with which parameters ?

Netpbm PBM "rawbits" image data. Does AMC accept this format ?

This should be OK, as this format can be read by OpenCV.

good to know. Problem is solved then. Much thanks.

Also note that AMC accepts multi-page PDF scans as input when calling "automatic data capture": it does convert it to bitmap single page images before processing them.

Alexis Bienvenüe wrote:

Also note that AMC accepts multi-page PDF scans as input when calling "automatic data capture": it does convert it to bitmap single page images before processing them.

Thanks for the info. So, if I understand well, the situation now is : we can use with AMC a multipage pdf scan, that is created by the copy machine acting as scanner. THe rest will be automatic ?

Yes.