[gs-devel] Compositing 2 PDFs

[Hans-Werner Hilse]

Hi,

On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:14:31 -0400 (EDT)
"Barry" <barry at polisource.com> wrote:

> Daniel Kasak wrote:
> > Is there a way to composite 2 PDFs into 1?
> 
> I needed to do this too because my OCR software doesn't work with PDF
> documents and doesn't batch process so I had to convert a pdf to tiff and
> join the pages. I used ImageMagick, which I think requires GhostScript.

That wouldn't be a good way to go, since everything will be a big
raster image then.

Rather take
- pdftk, which is a command line tool build on top of the iText library,
- the iText toolbox, a Java Webstart application,
- Multivalent tools

(google knows where to find them).

-hwh