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Need help with scanning and conversion process
Matt Wood | May 30 2006
I'm looking to scan a fair amount of documents for a research project (so I don't have to carry them with me everywhere), and I'd like to get some input on the best way to scan them and convert them into a workable format, like PDF. I've done this the hard way for one-off jobs before, by scanning with my little Canon flat bed scanner as an image then converting to PDF via the OS X print to PDF function, but this is time consuming and the files turn out quite large. Does anyone have any more recommendations on how to do this more efficiently? I read about the Fujitsu scanner on this thread, which sounds fantastic, but that's a lot of money. I also hear that Kinko's will scan documents for you. How is their service? Any other software or gear that can automate this? 6 Comments
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 I got this one: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BK106C/0Submitted by feebleoreo on June 1, 2006 - 10:28am.
I got this one: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BK106C/002-3019336-8943241?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=172282 I have no idea what version of Acrobat it came with. I have been using the OCR on my work machine, which has Acrobat Pro 7.0. I have to say, though, that I have yet to test it on any handwritten stuff, as my wife writes in tiny, crabbed hieroglyphs that no person nor program could understand. » POSTED IN:
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