Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Scanning double sided documents and printing them the same.
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 13:09:55
Message-Id: 4053896.LO2oqlPxjv@eve
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Scanning double sided documents and printing them the same. by Dr Rainer Woitok
1 Please do not include me in list-replies. I am subscribed.
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4 On Thursday, December 10, 2020 11:49:06 AM CET Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
5 > Joost,
6 >
7 > On Thursday, 2020-12-10 10:28:05 +0100, you wrote:
8 > > ...
9 > > My old printer/scanner can scan directly to PDF using the sheetfeeder.
10 > > For double-sided, I always ended up with 1 PDF with odd-pages and 1 with
11 > > even.
12 > >
13 > > There used to be tools available (python-old) that could shuffle these
14 > > together and merge them into a single PDF, which would allow for easy
15 > > reading/ printing.
16 >
17 > $ pdftk odd.pdf even.pdf shuffle output all.pdf
18 >
19 > Command "pdftk" comes with package "app-text/pdftk".
20 >
21 > Sincerely,
22 > Rainer
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24 That's a java-port of the original pdftk.
25 I actually solved the issue by getting a double-sided ADF scanner.
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28 Joost