Extolling the virtues of gscan2pdf and Linux for Windows users
(We recommend you bookmark this blog. Trying to find helpful information in forums usually just ends in making you frustrated and angry. This blog does not speculate or guess. If we post it, we've tried it and it works. As with all our posts, if you don't care about the background info, you can head straight to the yellow highlighted sections for the problem and the fix.) Over the years I have scanned and converted literally thousands of pdf files. Most of those scans and conversions have been split between on-the-job tasks that required conversions of oil and gas leases and other documents, and personal projects in which I have converted hundreds of books, magazines and articles for various reasons that I will not go into here. Suffice it to say that I have spent thousands of hours working with pdf files, and when it comes to doing OCR on imaged files my favorite program to use is gscan2pdf . I am tempted to say that it is a shame that there is not a Windows version of gsc...