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+Q: Have you considered adding a scan to PDF multipage functionality to XSane?
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+A:
+I already made up my mind about scanning to a pdf file.
+The pdf format is a bad format for scanning images.
+When you scan a text document to a pdf file then there are
+two large differences to usual pdf documents:
+
+- the size of the scanned documents is about 10-50 times larger than
+the size of a comparable text document
+- you can not search such a document
+
+So scanning text and saving it as image to pdf is no good idea.
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+And for scanning photos:
+The PDF format is a document format, more comparable
+to the Microsoft Word format than to jpeg, png or Tiff.
+When you scanned 100 pictures to a pdf document, how
+will you extract one of the pictures?
+
+I plan to include multipage tiff and postscript files.
+But not in the near future - I do not have the time for it
+in the moment.
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