Making PDFs from JPEGs?

Hello. I am hoping that this is the right part of the forum for this query.
I am interested in creating multi-page PDF documents from individual JPEGs (i.e. pages of text that I have scanned). I have PhotoShop Elements as well as Adobe Reader 7.1.0. I am on a Macintosh (OS 10.4.11). Is there anyway I can do this with what I already have or with an additional free download, or do I need to pay for a new application or service?
Hope someone can answer. Thanks in advance.
CR

Which version of Photoshop Elements? My PSE6 will save as PDF, and
earlier versions probably could, too.
You can join PDFs up to 10MB each together online at
http://www.pdfjoin.com. Or you could download and install a free PDF
creator like primoPDF ( http://www.primopdf.com ) which will allow
you to produce PDFs in series to give a multipage PDF.
JPEG may not be the best choice if you're scanning text. If you open
one of your JPGs in PSE and zoom in close, you'll see the fuzziness
at the edges of the characters. It's much better to scan to TIFF,
which will give crisp, clean text if the page you're scanning is
clean. The files will be bigger, but the result will be much better.
Noel

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4) Per your suggestion, I set the job to cancel when embedding fails with no apparent snags, so I guess that bodes well. And I disabled "Process DSC Comments." Below is a screen capture of both the results of a trial and the first level of all my setting panes. Hopefully all looks good. Some questions here too however.
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5) What are pro- and epilogue.ps files, and do I need them? Note that they are currently not included. Is that correct?
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TEST FILE RESULTS
PREFERENCES
FONT LOCATIONS
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