OCR (Optical Character Recognition): Converting paper documents to text |  |
OCR (Optical Character Recognition): Converting paper documents to text | |
This section tells you how to how to scan your document and make it into a PDF file. This file can be useful by itself: it contains a pictorial representation of the original, and can be used to print reasonable paper copies.
Log in under Windows XP.
From the menu, select → → .
Open the scanner and place your copy face down, with the top left corner of the page aligned with the top right corner of the scanner glass, like this:
In the Adobe Acrobat Professional window, select → → .
This brings up the Create PDF From Scanner window.
You may want to drag the horizontal slider at the bottom of this window toward “Higher Compression” to get smaller files, or toward “Higher Quality” for larger, cleaner-looking files. If in doubt, use the default setting.
Click the button. You will see a progress bar. This part will take a minute or so.
When the scan is completed, you will get a popup menu entitled Acrobat Scan Plug-In. If you have another page of copy, load it into the scanner and click . Otherwise, click .
Once you have scanned all the pages of a particular document, leave the Adobe Acrobat window open and proceed to the next section.