gscan2pdf is a GUI to ease the process of producing PDFs from scanned documents. You scan in one or several pages and create a PDF of selected pages. Scanning is handled with SANE via scanimage. PDF conversion is done by PDF::API2. Perl is used for portability and ease of programming, with gtk2-perl for the GUI.
| Tags | multimedia Graphics Capture Scanners Office/Business |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX |
| Implementation | Perl |
| Translations | English German Dutch French Polish Swedish Chinese |
Recent releases


Changes: This release fixes a bug potentially preventing users from scanning.


Changes: A rescan devices option. A progress bar for the scanadf frontend. Renumbered selected pages. adf mode. overscan-(top|bottom) options. Rubberband selections persist between pages. The ability to select blank and dark pages. An option to select whether OCR output is replaced, appended, or prepended. An option to select pages modified since the last OCR run. An update to Brazilian Portuguese, Croatian, Dutch, German, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Norwegian Bokmal, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, and Ukranian translations. Fixes for many minor bugs.


Changes: This release corrects logic for auto-rotating manual double-sided scans. It has a properties dialog to show and change the resolution of the image. It can write images including resolution information, guess the resolution of PNMs from the shape of an image, and convert PNMs to TIFF before giving them to the GIMP. It stops the thumbnail panel from being resized by main window.


Changes: Scan profiles can be set up. Sessions can be saved and restored. Automatic PDF compression option. Various bugs were fixed. A Ukranian translation was added. The Dutch, German, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish translations were updated.


Changes: Support for the unpaper option --output-pages. A checkbox to disable the option cache. A Bulgarian translation. Updates to the Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, and Spanish translations.