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I want to be able to scan a document on my scanner have have a option to convert the document to pdf?

November 13, 2009 - 8:38 am 3 Comments

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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3 Responses to “I want to be able to scan a document on my scanner have have a option to convert the document to pdf?”

  1. Daz Says:
    November 13th, 2009 at 2:22 pm

    To have the option of creating a PDF, you need to have the Adobe Acrobat Professional version. You can’t create PDFs with just the Acrobat Reader installed.
    References :

  2. Hatosan Says:
    November 13th, 2009 at 2:44 pm

    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.
    http://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.
    http://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)

    Ht2Ø
    References :
    http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobatpro/
    http://www.scribus.net/
    http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcrea...
    http://www.primopdf.com/
    http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AtPL4TuDb259fLQPHd8In57ty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20080228102209AAtV4Sk&show=7#profile-info-neGMl9tYaa

  3. petedavo Says:
    November 13th, 2009 at 3:28 pm

    Are you sure that the installation disk does not have a Text Recognition program on it, like textbridge or something?

    Have another look, and when you find the Optical Character (Text) Recognition program run it, and scan from there.

    You might only be able to save the result as a doc file, but then you can use the open source programs to convert it later.
    References :

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