Talk:Fields Analysis Working Group

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uploading pdfs

I am still learning how to upload scanned notes. So far this is what I have done:

scanned the notes at the department scanner. (When confronted with the login/password screen, use the last word of the last sentence.) This gave me a jpeg file for each page (I used a low resolution setting.) I called the files hiro1.jpg, hiro2.jpg, etc.

Then I transferred them to my mac laptop, where I used Preview to change each jpeg file to a pdf file.

Then from the command line of the "Terminal" application I ran the command

convert -compression jpeg -quality 50 hiro?.pdf hiro1?.pdf hiro2?.pdf out.pdf

This read in the files hiro1.pdf, hiro2.pdf ... up to the highest hiro in the 20's --- concatenated them --- and wrote them as file out.pdf.

The result was a little less than 1 MB for 29 pages.

Then I uploaded the file using the "upload file" link on the left, and edited the seminar entry to link to the file I had uploaded.

If anyone has more direct algorithms for doing this, please feel free to share!

Bkstephens 20:47, 6 October 2008 (EDT)