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Apple's Notes app can scan ID cards (front and back) very well; it produces a PDF file out of the scanned images. This PDF file is not suitable for printing on A4 size paper as the image spans the entire width. The following can be used to put both the front and back images in one A4-sized page which can be printed
# Requirements:
# - imagemagick
# - ghostscript
convert -density 300 notes_app_scanned_doc.pdf -gravity center -resize 1240x1754\> -background white -append -background white -splice 0x600 temp_combined.jpg
convert temp_combined.jpg -gravity center -extent 2480x3508 output.pdf
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