XP Pro scanner

[Reggie D.]

Is it possible to scan as pdf file? Or is there ant easy way to turn a
scanned doc. into pdf?

Reggie D.

 

[johnn]

Is it possible to scan as pdf file? Or is there ant easy way to turn a
scanned doc. into pdf?

Reggie D.

Reggie:

I'm not sure if I completely understand your question, but could PRIMO PDF
(http://www.primopdf.com/) be the answer?

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[Ken Blake, MVP]

Is it possible to scan as pdf file?

That depends entirely on what scanner software you use.

 

[Ghostrider]

Is it possible to scan as pdf file? Or is there ant easy way to turn a
scanned doc. into pdf?

Reggie D.

To the first question, a qualified yes. It depends on the conversion
software that is supplied with the scanner.

To the second question, why not just convert the *.doc file directly
into a *.pdf file electronically, without scanning? It can be done using
Adobe Acrobat or one the few shareware/freeware conversion applications.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

To the first question, a qualified yes. It depends on the conversion
software that is supplied with the scanner.

To the second question, why not just convert the *.doc file directly
into a *.pdf file electronically, without scanning? It can be done using
Adobe Acrobat or one the few shareware/freeware conversion applications.

And Word 2007 can create the pdf file from a doc file directly,
without any additional software.

 

[Ray Luca]

To the first question, a qualified yes. It depends on the conversion
software that is supplied with the scanner.

To the second question, why not just convert the *.doc file directly
into a *.pdf file electronically, without scanning?

Maybe because "Reggie D." only has a hard copy, hmm???

 

[VanguardLH]

Is it possible to scan as pdf file?

That depends on what software came bundled with your scanner. Go read
its manual.

Or is there ant easy way to turn a
scanned doc. into pdf?

Use a PDF printer driver. Any application that lets you print can use
the PDF printer to convert the print output to a .pdf file.

I use PDFCreator (at sourceforge.net).

 

[Reggie D.]

Johnn,

Sorry I thought the subject title explained. The only scanner software I
have is the built in windows scanner & software which does not offer pdf as a
scan format.

Reggie D.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Is it possible to scan as pdf file? Or is there ant easy way to
turn a scanned doc. into pdf?

I'm not sure if I completely understand your question, but could
PRIMO PDF (http://www.primopdf.com/) be the answer?

Sorry I thought the subject title explained. The only scanner
software I have is the built in windows scanner & software which
does not offer pdf as a scan format.

What type of scanner (hardware) do you have?
Are you saying it did not come with its own software packages?

 

[Reggie D.]

Shenan,

My scanner is HP psc 2410. I don't really want to reinstall the HP software
for this printer. But if there is no way around it I'll have to.
Any idea why the bulit in XP scanner software does not offer pdf scans?

Reggie D.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

My scanner is HP psc 2410. I don't really want to reinstall the HP
software for this printer. But if there is no way around it I'll
have to.
Any idea why the bulit in XP scanner software does not offer pdf
scans?

You will have to install the software if you want features like that (or you
will have to use some other software that can save to PDF (got Office 2007
with the proper "Save As" AddOns installed?))

Yes - Windows XP is 7-8 years old. When it was released, PDFs weren't as
popular as they are now and so - it probably was not included as a way to
scan natively in the OS. Will it/is it in newer OSes - really don't know...

You could scan in whatever manner allowed and then use a freeware PDF
printer to print the scan to PDF format if you really don't want to install
the software that allows you to do it natively with the product you have.
PDFCreator (freeware) works really well in my opinion.

 

[Chuck]

Actually scanners generally scan into an image file or files(multipage
scan). Programs that accompany the scanner or third party programs convert
the image file(s) into other types of files. A PDF file is a bit peculiar,
in that it was originally an adobe format file. If it's a document that was
scanned, then some sort of graphics to text conversion needs to take place
before the text is usable.
If the image is directly converted to a PDF file, it will generally still be
an image. An image can also usually be imbedded as an image in a word doc
file, although the file size may change considerably.
Sometimes, utilities that are included with scanners have problems
converting to multipage PDF files.