pdf creation tool?

[Kevin Martin]

Bill Edwards wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com
> <mailto:davidsen at tmr.com>> wrote:
>
>     I would like to convert some old paper documentation to PDF in
>     case I ever need it. I have the scan software, I can easily create
>     an image of each page, or save the page in postscript or pdf. What
>     I don't have is a simple tool which will easily allow me to put
>     the pages into a single document, and possibly add an index so I
>     can find things if needed.
>
>     Any suggestions? I can certainly live with what I have, I can get
>     the information back for online reading or hard copy if needed,
>     but it's ugly.
>
>     -- 
>     Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com <mailto:davidsen at tmr.com>>
>      "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
>     the machinations of the wicked."  - from Slashdot
>       
>
>
> I have the same problem, but I don't need any fancy indexes or stuff,
> so I just save each page of the set as postscript, and then 
> concatenate them all together with cat. then ps2pdf and you're done
>
> Bill Edwards
xsane will save scanned pages as pdf, ps, whatever.  Don't know if it
will scan multiple pages to save into one pdf but you can always do the
cat | ps2pdf thing.

Kevin