From ed02f033b567748cbfe10c53e5e3e583862b49c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kenneth Odle Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2021 18:22:25 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Updated README.md --- README.md | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 8beca50..4a4622c 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,3 +1,14 @@ # pdftk-notes -I keep this in my Scans directory, this is just a backup. \ No newline at end of file +I keep this in my Scans directory, this is just a backup. + +For what it's worth, here's my workflow. (I use [VueScan](https://www.hamrick.com/) for multi-page scans. It's the only scanning software that works with my Brother MFW-J805DW on Ubuntu, because it provides better drivers for Linux than Brother does. That's an endorsement.) + +I created a `\Scans` directory in my `\Home` directory1 and use this as a temporary landing spot for scans. (This is set as default in VueScan.) I scan multi-page docs and save them there, using 001.pdf, 002.pdf, etc. as filenames. Then it's later very easy to combine them with pdftk: + + $ input *.pdf cat output newfile.pdf + +If I have to break into a project, I will just create a subdirectory for the current project and dump all those scans in there temporarily. + + +1I'm generally opposed to adding new subdirectories here, but what can you do? I don't want this under `\Documents` as this directory contains transient files for the most part.