Experiences of Scanning to PDF

[Glenn9999]

For what is before me, I'm posed with the question of how to produce PDFs from scanned documents that look half-decent. I'm wondering, if it'd work well to scan to image, then import it into a word processor, stretch it out to full page size with 0" margins set, and then export it all to PDF using something like PDF Creator. Or is there another way to approach it?

Does anyone have experience in doing this? What works and doesn't work?

(Yes I know there are specific softwares to do this, but I'm not looking to pay through the nose to get this done either)

[jaclaz]

The simplest approach is to install a "virtual" PDF printer, there are several Free or almost free ones, two of them:

http://www.tinypdf.com/

http://www.dopdf.com/

You just scan the document with your program whatever it is, than "print" it to a .pdf file instead of a "real" printer.

Otherwise you may want to use a PDF creator, this one is Freeware:

http://www.nativewinds.montana.com/software/tpdfplus.html

jaclaz

[Glenn9999]

The simplest approach is to install a "virtual" PDF printer, there are several Free or almost free ones, two of them:

Did you read the question?

I'm posed with the question of how to produce PDFs from scanned documents that look half-decent.

While these options are good in getting a PDF file from another file, they are not good options in taking a series of documents from a scanner and outputting them in sequence so they may be reprinted with your suggestions in a reasonably similar form.

[jaclaz]

Did you read the question?

I'm posed with the question of how to produce PDFs from scanned documents that look half-decent.

While these options are good in getting a PDF file from another file, they are not good options in taking a series of documents from a scanner and outputting them in sequence so they may be reprinted with your suggestions in a reasonably similar form.

Yes I did read the question, and tried to help you, now that you thanked me so heartily for this, I re-read it, and still find my answer more than appropriate.

You never talked about "joining" scanned documents together, however, and again, though I do not actually understand WHY I am trying to help you , you can use a PDF printer from your scanning or image modifying software, then use an app to join several .pdf files in a single document, these are suitable:

http://www.brothersoft.com/pdf-merge-25708.html

http://www.brothersoft.com/pdf-merge-download-25708.html

http://pdfill.com/pdf_tools_free.html

(the latter has also an image conversion feature)

Or you can get GHOSTGUM and GSVIEW:

http://www.ghostgum.com.au/

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/

jaclaz

[ajua]

Try this one. Autumna ScanOut.

Its great for fast scanning to pdf or images. You can scan multiple pages and save them as one pdf file.

I use it to scan banking forms and other kinds of vouchers/receipts to pdf so i can have my own records in digital form.