{"id":6634,"date":"2017-03-20T15:09:26","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T15:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=6634"},"modified":"2017-03-20T15:09:26","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T15:09:26","slug":"install-latest-gscan2pdf-ubuntu-16-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2017\/03\/install-latest-gscan2pdf-ubuntu-16-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Install The Latest GScan2PDF in Ubuntu 16.04\/16.10\/17.04"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The latest GScan2PDF<\/a> has recently reached 1.7.3 release. Here’s how to install it in all current Ubuntu releases including Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, and higher.<\/p>\n

gscan2pdf is a GUI to ease the process of producing PDFs or DjVus from scanned documents. You scan one or several pages in with File\/Scan, and create a PDF of selected pages with File\/Save PDF. At maturity, the GUI will have similar features to that of the Windows Imaging program, but with the express objective of writing a PDF, including metadata. Scanning is handled with SANE via scanimage. PDF conversion is done by libtiff. Perl is used for portability and ease of programming, with gtk2-perl for the GUI. This should therefore work more or less out of the box on any system with gtk2-perl, scanimage, and libtiff.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While Ubuntu repositories only provide old versions, you can install the latest GScan2PDF (1.7.3 so far) via the developer’s PPA<\/a> and keep it up-to-date by receiving updates via Software Updater<\/b>.<\/p>\n

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1.<\/b> To add the PPA, open terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T, when it opens, run command:<\/p>\n

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jeffreyratcliffe\/ppa<\/pre>\n
Type in your password (no visual feedback due to security reason) and hit Enter.<\/i><\/p>\n
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2.<\/b> Have an old version installed? You can now launch Software Updater<\/b> (Update Manager) and upgrade the software to the latest:<\/p>\n
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For the first time, you can either install it via Synaptic Package Manager or by running following commands in terminal:<\/p>\n
sudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install gscan2pdf<\/pre>\n
How to Restore:<\/b><\/p>\n
For any reason you can easily restore to the stock version of gscan2pdf in your Ubuntu main repository by purging the PPA via command:<\/p>\n
sudo apt-get install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:jeffreyratcliffe\/ppa<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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