I ran into a scan a document to send it via email. PDF format would have been preferable, but Windows Scan and Fax wouldn’t export as a PDF. Fortunately OpenOffice is quite capable of converting a multi-page document to a PDF, and does it quite easily. I had already scanned my documents, so I wanted something that would work with the existing scans. Side note: OpenOffice also works on Linux.

Here’s how I did it.

Step One:

Scan your pages into JPG files and save them where you can find them. In this example, I have four scanned JPG files which I want to convert into a single PDF.

Step Two:

Start OpenOffice Writer

Step Three:

Click Insert > Picture > From File

Step Four:

Select the image to insert. Repeat with any additional images you wish to insert. Once you have all your images inserted, go to…

Step Five:

Click File > Export as PDF.

Step Six:

Set the PDF export options. If you aren’t sure what to do here, accept the defaults as they are fine. Click Export and you’ll be prompted to give the file a name and save it.

That’s it!