Gscan2pdf 1.8.4 Released, How to Install it in Ubuntu

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Gscan2pdf, a graphical tool to produce PDFs or DjVus from scanned documents, has reached the 1.8.4 release hours ago. Several bugs has been fixed in the release.

Gscan2pdf is an open-source tool for Linux that features:

  • Compatible with any SANE-capable scanner
  • Crop, threshold & clean up scan
  • Reorder pages via DND
  • Write multi-page scan to PDF, DjVu or TIFF
  • Write single scans to any format supported by ImageMagick
  • Ocropus & tesseract support
  • Place OCR output at boundary boxes supplied by Ocropus
  • Incorporate PDF metadata in filename

Changes in the latest Gscan2pdf 1.8.4 include:

  • Cope with Tesseract 3.0.5 writing Page 1 instead of Page 0
  • Assume pixels/inch if the image doesn’t know better.
  • Fix paragraph formatting in save as text output.
  • In preparation for future removal of libsane-perl frontend, change default frontend libsane-perl -> libimage-sane-perl, and similarly switch selected frontend on upgrade from older version. Assuming no major problems occur, support for libsane-perl will be removed in the next release.
  • Fixed bug writing postscript file.
  • support for ghostscript backend due to apparent bug in tiff2ps.
  • Round scan options with ranges to valid values before applying.
  • Fixed bug updating list of option-dependent values.

How to Install Gscan2pdf 1.8.4 in Ubuntu:

The project page offers official .deb installers, available for download at the link below:

Download Gscan2pdf

Note that you need MANUALLY download and install the dependency libraries from the parent folder in the link above.

To automatically install dependencies and upgrade Gscan2pdf easily via Software Updater, use the PPA repository:

1. Open terminal via Ctrl+Alt+T or from app launcher, run command to add the PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jeffreyratcliffe/ppa

Input your password (no visual feedback while typing) when it prompts and hit Enter. Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.10 are supported so far.

gscan2pdf ppa

2. Then upgrade the tool via Software Updater if you have a previous release installed:

upgrade-gscan2pdf

Or run following commands instead to install or upgrade Gscan2pdf:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install gscan2pdf

Uninstall Gscan2pdf:

You can purge the PPA which also downgrade Gscan2pdf to the stock version in your Ubuntu via command:

sudo apt-get install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:jeffreyratcliffe/ppa

To remove the software, either use your system package manager or run command in terminal:

sudo apt-get remove --autoremove gscan2pdf

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ml is a part time stay-at-home dad who've been using Ubuntu Desktop for a few years. He writes in the free time and wishes to share some useful tips with Ubuntu beginners and lovers.