How to convert jpegs to pdf in Ubuntu

Had a few documents to scan to PDF urgently today but to my surprise all the cybercafes around my neighborhood didn’t provide scan to PDF service. The best they could do was scan to jpeg. Hmmm…why?

Thanks to Linux I had a solution. Scan the docs to jpeg, then convert the jpegs to PDF using imagemagick. Worked like a charm.

Here’s how, on my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Install the imagemagick package if you don’t already have it.

:~$ sudo apt-get install imagemagick<br />
Convert a single file.

:~$ convert scan.jpeg result.pdf<br />
Convert multiple files.

:~$ convert -adjoin scan*.jpeg result.pdf<br />
or

:~$ convert -adjoin scan1.jpeg scan2.jpeg result.pdf

``Did it work for you? Do you have an alternative solution?

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