Converting images of different types to PDF

Question

I have a few hundred image files. This consist of files of multiple type like 1.png 2.jpg 3.png and so on. I want to create a PDF from these images without changing the order of pages. The number in the image name must be used to preserve the order of pages.

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:37

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You could create a bash script:

#!/bin/bash

for f in *.jpg; do
  convert ./"$f" ./"${f%.jpg}.pdf"
done

EDIT: Source - https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/29869/converting-multiple-image-files-from-jpeg-to-pdf-format

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:37

Community

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answered Nov 20 '15 at 11:27

SlidingHorn

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OP said that there are multiple extensions like jpg and png, not only one. And you could just write that command in one line instead of creating a script file for it. – Byte Commander Nov 20 '15 at 11:28
I missed that...I'll have to pay closer attention, apparently – SlidingHorn Nov 20 '15 at 11:29

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 20 '15 at 11:30

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Using imagemagick, you could use a script like that

TMP=`mktemp -d`
for img in `ls`; do
    convert "$img" "$TMP"/"$img".pdf
done

convert $TMP/*.pdf merged.pdf

EDIT: I saw now a similar response. The only thing that this script adds is merging all the files in only one pdf.

answered Nov 20 '15 at 11:30

clobrano

287

Actually I used pdfunite at the last line as convert is blurring the images – Sunny Nov 20 '15 at 12:19

Converting images of different types to PDF

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