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How to create a multi-page PDF from multiple image files using OpenOffice
Posted by MB in Uncategorized on December 6, 2011
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!