Re: scanned in & manipulate to a pdf

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 12:47 AM, Ronald Wiplinger <tm.ronald@gmail.com> wrote: > I got a Windows program, which can scan in a book by scanning in the pages > 1,3,5, ....n turn the book by 180 degrees and scan in from the back side > n-1,n-3, ... 2. Then the program made a pdf book of the scanned in pages. > > I am not sure if a php program is the right way to do, but I thought to do > the same by scanning in the pages (p0001, p0002, p0003, .....) and then > work > on each page in a batch to turn p0001 by 180 degree and rename it to a0001, > rename p000(n-1) to a0002, turn p0002 by 180 degree and rename it to a0003 > .... > and add each page to a book.pdf > > Is php right for that? > > bye > > Ronald > I would say no, not saying that you couldn't do it, but its not what its really designed for. As PHP runs server side, you would need to have the scanner available to the server, set up commands to allow php/apache access to the pdf application, etc. This is much more a c/c++/vb/.net type application. -- Bastien Cat, the other other white meat