If you're looking for a simple way to use a multi-page scanner and get your document into a PDF in Linux without any proprietary or commercial software, then ScanPDF might be the solution. I wrote it to quickly take the Linux SANE scanner system output image files, and process them …

• Take a scanned PDF file and run OCR on it (using the Tesseract OCR software from Google), generating a searchable PDF
• Optionally, watch a folder for incoming scanned PDFs and automatically run OCR on them
• Optionally, file the scanned PDFs into directories based on simple keyword matching that you specify …

Updates:

• Anytime - Get the latest updates on PyPDFOCR
• 10/28/13 - Adds uploading to Evernote notebooks based on keywords!
• 10/25/13 - Supports filing to directories based on keyword search
• 10/22/13 - Now on PyPI, so you can just do "pip install pypdfocr"! (For windows, I still recommend downloading …