Using imagemagick to convert numerous jpg files to single pdf

jrtayloriv · 04-14-2009, 10:18 AM

I have a large number of scanned JPG images that I would like to convert into a single PDF file -- each image will be on its own page, and I want the pages to be in a certain order.

What is the command for ImageMagick to take a batch of JPGs and convert them to PDF, and order the pages in a certain way.

Say for example, that I had -- page1.jpg page2.jpg page3.jpg ...

Thanks very much for your help.

--jrtayloriv

(by the way: I am working on writing a Gentoo ebuild for convert2pdf at the moment, but until I get that worked out, I'd like to figure out how to do this using Imagemagick, which is already in the portage tree, and already installed)

zer0x333 · 04-14-2009, 11:09 AM

Hi,

I may be wrong, but I don't think ImageMagick can do that by itself.

I would convert the images as seperate PDF's then use something like pdftk to merge them into one with ordering.

Code:

       Join in1.pdf and in2.pdf into a new PDF, out1.pdf
         pdftk in1.pdf in2.pdf cat output out1.pdf
         or (using handles):
         pdftk A=in1.pdf B=in2.pdf cat A B output out1.pdf
         or (using wildcards):
         pdftk *.pdf cat output combined.pdf

Not sure if that helps, but there it is

zer0x

jrtayloriv · 04-14-2009, 11:32 AM

That does help very much. Thank you. I was able to find plenty of info on using imagemagick to convert individual JPGs into individual PDFs, so I know how to do that. I just couldn't find any info on converting a batch of JPGs into a single PDF.

pdftk seems to be what I was looking for. I appreciate the help.

--jrtayloriv

zer0x333 · 04-14-2009, 11:59 AM

Glad to be useful