Giant Robot

Was looking for a way to help Jacqui produce a single PDF from several jpeg scans today. Turned out - as is often the case with a nice Linux desktop - the answer was right under our noses. We have a bunch of scans, named Scan-001.jpg, Scan-002.jpg thru Scan-009.jpg. We want an output PDF file that lets you download all dozen pages as one PDF.

How hard can that be? This hard - with ImageMagick:

convert -density 150 Scan*jpg Output.pdf

Well. Um. I can't see that kind of ease of use and functionality ever busting into the mainstream market, can you?

I'm sure most people would rather scrape around the interweb looking for something that might be shareware, or malware, or another piece of software entirely. Yep.