Windows Fax and Scan: Scan using smaller files

M

MillworkMarketing

Is it possible to scan a document to a .pdf file using Windows Fax and Scan?
If not, does anyone have a suggestion as how to scan multiple pages into a
smaller file format than .tif?
 
H

Hal Hostetler [MVP P/I]

The only way to scan to .PDF would be if you have a .PDF writing application
that interfaces with a scanner; WF&S only knows how to write .TIF files.
You can scan from Photo Gallery also and it knows about more picture
formats. As to combining scans into a single document, a .PDF writer should
be able to do this; Microsoft Office Document Imaging will definitely do
this, I've used it before to combine individual scans into a multi-page
document. As a matter of fact, I've also used MODI to print one of these
combined scan documents to a .PDF "printer" (CutePDF is an example).

Hal
--
Hal Hostetler, CPBE -- (e-mail address removed)
Senior Engineer/MIS -- MS MVP-Print/Imaging -- WA7BGX
http://www.kvoa.com -- "When News breaks, we fix it!"
KVOA Television, Tucson, AZ. NBC Channel 4
Live at Hot Licks - www.badnewsbluesband.com
 
M

MillworkMarketing

Thank you, Hal

Hal Hostetler said:
The only way to scan to .PDF would be if you have a .PDF writing application
that interfaces with a scanner; WF&S only knows how to write .TIF files.
You can scan from Photo Gallery also and it knows about more picture
formats. As to combining scans into a single document, a .PDF writer should
be able to do this; Microsoft Office Document Imaging will definitely do
this, I've used it before to combine individual scans into a multi-page
document. As a matter of fact, I've also used MODI to print one of these
combined scan documents to a .PDF "printer" (CutePDF is an example).

Hal
--
Hal Hostetler, CPBE -- (e-mail address removed)
Senior Engineer/MIS -- MS MVP-Print/Imaging -- WA7BGX
http://www.kvoa.com -- "When News breaks, we fix it!"
KVOA Television, Tucson, AZ. NBC Channel 4
Live at Hot Licks - www.badnewsbluesband.com
 

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