This tutorial will be helpful for beginners to download and install gscan2pdf 2.12.5 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Linux Mint 20.3, and lower versions of Ubuntu and Linux Mint.
gscan2pdf is a GUI tool used to produce PDFs or DjVus from Scanned documents,gscan2pdf works on all Linux / BSD machines.
gscan2pdf team released a newer version 2.12.5 recently and is yet to be updated in official PPA (Jeffrey Ratcliffe) for Ubuntu 20.04 and lower versions.
Features of gscan2pdf
- Ocropus & tesseract support
- Write multi-page scan to PDF, DjVu or TIFF
- Incorporate PDF metadata in the filename
- Write single scans to any format supported by ImageMagick
How to Install gscan2pdf 2.12.5 on Ubuntu / Linux Mint
gscan2pdf can be installed on Ubuntu and Linux Mint systems via 2 methods
- Method 1 : Via official PPA
- Method 2 : Via Deb file
Method 1: Via Official PPA
Step 1: Add the official PPA
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:jeffreyratcliffe/ppaStep 2: Install gscan2pdf
sudo apt install gscan2pdfMethod 2 : Via Deb file
Download the DEB installer file from the SourceForge site
Install the Deb file using dpkg command
sudo dpkg -i gscan2pdf_2.12.5-1_all.deb
How to Remove gscan2pdf
Use the below command to remove gscan2pdf on the system
sudo apt remove gscan2pdf && sudo apt-add-repository --remove ppa:jeffreyratcliffe/ppaConclusion
From this tutorial, you have learned how to download and install gscan2pdf on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and LinuxMint 20.3.
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