Computer Question - creating PDF's

[JPSmit]

So, I was in oshawa yesterday and picked up the coolest of cool books. See attached, this is a Data Book for every car in Canada 1957-1963, including, the usual suspects & Austin, Borgward, Citroen, Fiat, British Ford, german Ford, Hansa, Humber, Lloyd etc. and it has EVERTHING!

For instance, did you know that the effective service brake area of a MkII sprite is 67.5 sq inches or that it has 54% braking at front. Or that the steering axis Inclination on a Midget (61-63) is 6.5%. Friends this takes trivia and obsession to a whole new level. Anyway, in order to share my joy, I have scanned the book. They are all Jpegs.

Here then is my question,

Is there an easy way to convert to a PDF booklet that does not involve me buying expensive software like Adobe Acrobat and hopefully does allow the document to be searched?

Here is the cover

https://www.flickr.com/photos/10772705@N05/1761785490/

and here is what a page looks like

https://www.flickr.com/photos/10772705@N05/1761116843/

BTW - I just want to share my joy, if anyone can do this, I'm happy to send the scans though they are big - 2 meg per.

thanks all
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[Trevor Jessie]

If they are jpegs, then there is no easy way to make it searchable. If you just want a pdf book from jpeg, then there is plenty of free software to do this, but the file size will not be much smaller than the sum of your jpegs.

 

[JPSmit]

any other thoughts then?

 

[Ulf]

Well the easy way for YOU to convert this in to PDF is to send all the jpegs to me and I will do it for you since I have the software... /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif