Gscan2pdf is a popular tool and it should be available in the repository of most Linux distributions. Gscan2pdf is a utility that was created for scanning documents, quickly edit them and saving them in PDF. Method 2: Use gscan2pdf GUI tool to convert multiple images to PDF Want even simpler? Use gscan2pdf which is explained in the next section. You’ll have a single PDF file with multiple images with all the images in it. You can add new pages, insert images or PDF files (also inserted with insert image option) in those pages and then hit the PDF on the top. Combine images to PDF using LibreOffice Draw Not only image files, you can also add single page PDF file and combine them together with images into a single PDF file. The idea here is to add your images in the pages and when you have everything set as per your desire, export everything as PDF. It is already preinstalled in most distributions so I am not going to discuss the LibreOffice installation in Ubuntu. This is a very handy tool and you can even edit PDF files with it. Method 1: Use LibreOffice to combine multiple images into PDF I’ll show all the above three methods in this tutorial. The versatile ImageMagic command line tool can be used for converting images into PDF.gscan2pdf graphical tool can also be used combining multiple images (and single page PDFs) into a single PDF one.LibreOffice Draw or even Writer can be used to combine multiple images into PDF.

In Linux, there are several ways you can combine multiple images into a single PDF file. It’s just one of the examples where you may need to convert multiple image files in one PDF file. My problem was that I had documents scanned individually but not in one file. I had this need when I had to apply for a job and they required me to upload a single PDF file consisting of several documents. And in any case, I don’t want to upload my documents to some random web server. But they are either not free or they will put their watermark on the final PDF file. You may find several websites that allow you to do that.

Once you’ve taken a screenshot, you should be able to paste it in any paint-like program.You have several documents or images scanned individually and you need to save multiple images to one PDF file. The ctrl+alt+printscreen keybind is pretty universal and should work on all distros. If you only have three or four pages in your pdf, it should only take a couple of minutes!Īnd you don’t have to use Gimp, you could use any other image editing software, I just used Gimp as it’s what I know and use. Then switch back to your pdf viewer and repeat the process… Move to the next page, take another screenshot via ctrl+alt+printscreen, go to Gimp, use 'paste as new image', then export the image. then you can export your screenshot from Gimp as a. Open Gimp and go to ‘Edit->Paste as->New image’ Press the ctrl + alt + printscreen keys at the same time.Ģ. With your pdf viewer in full-screen mode, displaying the whole page:ġ. Or if you don’t have a screenshot tool installed: Take a screenshot using a screenshot tool. Put the pdf viewer into full-screen mode (usually via the F11 key) and ensure the whole page is displayed on the screen.ģ. Open your pdf file in an e-reader like Evince (gnome), or Okular (QT/KDE), or whatever.Ģ. But that’s another option you could explore yourself.ġ. I don’t use any myself, so I couldn’t make a recommendation, or vouch for the safety of any such websites. There are some websites with free online converters for changing from one document type to another. Click to expand.There aren’t any built in programs to do it.īut if you install imagemajick, you should be able to use the convert command to convert from pdf to jpg using a simple terminal command, as pointed out by That’s probably the best option.

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