Looking for an app that convert pictures into PDF

[Kroze]

I have an iPhone app that let you take pictures of say a book, automatically crop the image so that only the page is showing and then convert it to PDF format.

However, since the camera on the iPhone is not as good as a standalone camera and it doesn't capture the text as well, I was wondering if there's such application exist for the PC.

I want to use my standalone camera to take picture of a book, upload it to the PC and have the app automatically crop the border of the image and convert it to a PDF. Does such a beast exist?

Well I really don't need it to convert it to PDF, but as long as the app automatically crop the borders I'm happy.

 

[Imp]

Sounds like you're asking for book scanning tech. There's a website or two dedicated to that - just google "book scanning".

I did some reading on them and think I remember a free program being made available.

 

[Schfifty Five]

On my work laptop, we have an option to "print to Adobe PDF". I'm guessing it's part of some adobe package we have. You may want to look into that, but not sure if it'll cost money.

 

[Imp]

If you just want PDF printing, there's CutePDF, which is free. It works okay, but I've had issues with it when using AutoCAD and printing images in Word files.

Then you have Adobe Standard for $200-$300 depending on the license. I have no idea if they include auto-cropping though.

 

[darkewaffle]

There's a lot of free options for PDF printing. Infix, Primo, and CutePDF come to mind. Personally I prefer CutePDF for it's simplicity but it also doesn't have quite as many options if you need them.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

If you have a Mac to go with your iPhone, you can do all this in Preview.

Or using a free program called "CombinePDFs" which will combine a batch of files (JPEGs included) and spit out a PDF file.

 

[Kroze]

For example, say I have this picture and wanted the application to automatically recognizes the border of the page and crop them into 2 separate pages.

The app then see and recognize the text and converted the whole document into a PDF instead of an image file.

 

[Kroze]

Just tried the CutePDF and combine PDF and both are not what i'm looking for, I need something that recognizes the border of the page and automatically crop the page.

Those 2 apps just convert the image straight into pdf.

 

[SandEagle]

why not just purchase the book instead of infringing on copyright laws? in the long run, it's cheaper to buy than to burn in hell.

 

[Ken g6]

The app then see and recognize the text

Even Google's lucky if that works, and they have dedicated book-scanning devices that scan at a much higher resolution than your camera phone. There's always OCR errors that have to be corrected manually.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

For example, say I have this picture and wanted the application to automatically recognizes the border of the page and crop them into 2 separate pages.

The app then see and recognize the text and converted the whole document into a PDF instead of an image file.

Yeah, you're working in fantasy land now.

Omnipage can sort of do that, but a digicam shot of an open book is probably going to be way too low res for it to work.

 

[corkyg]

What you need is a flatbed scanner.

 

[ringtail]

KROZE,

Like Corky said, you want a scanner to OCR the image.

Google offers a free Optical Character Recognition tool.
I haven't used it (I use AbbyyFine) but you might check it out. It's called Google Tesseract OCR engine.

At least it'd save you some money if you could figure that out.