Create PDF file from (jpg) pictures in Linux
I've recently received a number of images in
JPEG format as
a feedback on a project plan that was constructed by a team I'm
participating at the university where I study.
Somebody from my project group has scanned or taken snapshots of
each of the hard copy paper feedback and has sent it to my
mail.
I've received 13 images so I had to open them one by one to get
each of the Project Plan to read the feedback on the page this was
really unhandy, so I decided to give it a try on how to generate a
common
PDF file from all my picture files.
Thanksfully it happened to be very easy and trivial using the good
old
Image
Magick
In order to complete the task of generating
one PDF from a
number of pictures all I did was.
1. Switch to the directory
where I have saved all my jpeg images
debian:~# cd
/home/hipo/Desktop/my_images_directory/
2. Use the convert binary part of imagemagick package to
generate the actual PDF file from the group of images
debian:~# convert *.jpg outputpdffile.pdf
If the images are numbered and contain many scanned pages of course
you can always pass by all the images to the
/usr/bin/convert
binary, like for instance:
debian:~# convert 1.jpg 2.jpg 3.jpg 4.jpg 5.jpg
outputpdffile.pdf
I was quite happy eventually to know Linux is so flexible and such
a trivial things are able to be completed in such an easy
way.