HI all, I have 3 pages scanned in PDF and I h

[losemind]

HI all,

I have 3 pages scanned in PDF and I hope I can combine them into one big jpeg image and post it online on forums.

The goals are:

1. Three pages cancated into one page(the height of the image is 3x larger than a normal image);
2. Do some annotation on this big image;
3. Convert everything into JPEG image file and then post it online on forums...

The sniptool only allow no more than screen size capture.

Any convinient softwares that can fulfill the above requirement?

If I use a separate tool to combine the 3 pages into one big JPEG image, the sniptool does not allow opening a file to make annotations, that's too bad...

[SuperRob]

Well, the Snipping tool is only for capturing "snippets" of a page, not entire pages. This is reasonable.

[skinny_fat]

This method assumes you're ok with annotating your images in Paint. If you use Photoshop instead, your annotations will look much nicer.

All you need is Adobe Reader, and Paint (or Photoshop).

Step 1:
Click the picture "tasks" icon in Adobe Reader and selece "export pictures"



Step 2:
Save them to wherever and open the first one in Paint (or Photoshop).

Step 3:
In paint choose "Image" then "Attributes..." and increase the image height by a factor of 3. This won't stretch the image, but rather it will extend some white space. (In Photoshop, do something different to increase the image height.)




Step 4:
Open the other 2 images, for each you want to select all, copy, paste into image 1, and move the pasted images into the right spots.

Step 5:
Annotate in Paint (or Photoshop) and save.

[losemind]

Annotating in Paint is pain in the neck...

Also the whole process is tedious since I have to do this whole process for many situations...

Here I have 5 pages that I want to combine them into one big jpeg...

I am not sure if there is such a tool...

[losemind]

Aaha, I found that I can print a OneNate page into PDF since I have Acrobat Pro 7.0 installed...

So first I have to scan the documents into Acrobat PDF,
I just need to use a customized paper size, for exaple(21x100), 5 times longer than a letter size...

Then I got a super-page PDF.

Then in Acrobat PRO I can save this big page as jpeg....

Wonderful!

Not sure if this is the most efficient way though... A lot of steps...:=)

Summary:

1. Scan 5 pages into Acrobat;
2. Print them to OneNote;
3. Do annotation -- they look like one big page now;
4. Print back to Acrobat PDF using very huge paper size;
5. Open it in Acrobat and save that huge page into jpeg.

Too much trouble, isn't it?

[Malorkus]

Some screen capture utilities can capture all the content in a window with scrollbars all at once:
http://www.techsmith.com/products/snagit/
Maybe that will save you steps 4, 5.

[GIS_guy]

why not just combine the pages in Adobe and annotate them there... sounds a lot easier to me

Plus an image that big would probably piss off the owner of the forum you want to post that on