The software that came with my scanner does not have that option, instead it convert the document in an image document. Is there a way to do this with an open source software?
Adobe Acrobat is for viewing while Adobe Acrobat Professional is for editing and converting/saving your documents to pdf.
For editing Acrobat pdf file, it has a software called Adobe Designer which you can add text or edit your pdf file. Without Designer, a pdf in Acrobat Professional is just a normal lame pdf.
www.adobe.com/products/acrobatpro/
You can also use Scribus, a free opensource desktop publishing with support for Openoffice document, Open document and pdf. Ghostscript need to be download and installed so that PDF could open and run in Scribus. Use this to edit and access your pdf file.
www.scribus.net/
pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ (Ghostscript)
You also need either PDFCreator or PrimoPDF to convert your documents to pdf within Excel or Word or any programs.
http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcrea…
http://www.primopdf.com/
"you can create high-quality PDFs by converting from Word, Excel, and virtually any other printable file type". (PrimoPdf)
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