CharleyGarrett
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This is what I'm doing, and it's a drag. So, if there is a better way, I'd like to know about it.
I have a 7 page document, with graphics, that I want to save to my harddrive as a pdf file. I right click the printer/scanner that I have, and select "start scan", then click the button that says "scan" and wait for the printer to scan. Then I enter the document title in a window called "tags". It ends up being the folder name. I close the window that opens showing the page in the folder. It opens the folder for each page, and I don't need 7 windows open.
I turn the page over to page 2, and repeat all of the above, except I can pick the tag/document title/folder from a drop down of recent entries.
When all 7 pages are scanned, then I insert them into a word document with no margins (they exist inside the scanned images of the pages). Then I print the word document as a pdf.
Any suggestions for me?
I have a 7 page document, with graphics, that I want to save to my harddrive as a pdf file. I right click the printer/scanner that I have, and select "start scan", then click the button that says "scan" and wait for the printer to scan. Then I enter the document title in a window called "tags". It ends up being the folder name. I close the window that opens showing the page in the folder. It opens the folder for each page, and I don't need 7 windows open.
I turn the page over to page 2, and repeat all of the above, except I can pick the tag/document title/folder from a drop down of recent entries.
When all 7 pages are scanned, then I insert them into a word document with no margins (they exist inside the scanned images of the pages). Then I print the word document as a pdf.
Any suggestions for me?
strollin
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What printer/scanner do you have? I have a Kodak printer/scanner and the software that came with it will allow me to scan all 7 pages and save them as a pdf file.
If the software that came with your scanner doesn't have this ability then there are commercial packages that will. I personally don't know of any free software to do this although it's possible some exists.
If the software that came with your scanner doesn't have this ability then there are commercial packages that will. I personally don't know of any free software to do this although it's possible some exists.
As Strollin suggested, first check your printer documentation to see if it will directly save the scans as a pdf. Some enhanced graphics viewers, like Irfanview (free), can accumulate multiple scanned images and save output as pdf format, but I'm not sure if Irfanview can save a multi-page pdf. There is a lot of freeware to explore. As far as using Word, you can sort of save a step if you are using Office 2007 or later. You can directly save the file as a pdf (no need to print to a pdf driver). From the Office button in the upper left corner, click on Save As and then PDF. Another option: use a program like Irfanview in "batch" mode to save each page as a pdf (one automated step handles all of the scans). Then use a web site like www.ilovepdf.com/merge_pdf (a great free service, very intuitive), to merge the pdfs into a single document. That will save opening and pasting each scan into a Word document.
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