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Larry
I have a large job to do, turning several hundreds of pages of 8.5 x 11
xeroxed pages into a single .pdf document. It is straight text. The
computer I'm using has the Lexmark 1100 all-in-one with a flat bed
scanner. I've never done a large scan job and have never created a pdf
document.
What is the best and fastest way to do this? Should I scan into Word,
and then change the Word documents to .pdf? The problem with that is
that when I pick Word as the application for the scanning, after a
single page is scanned, Word opens with that document in it. If I then
scan a second page, a _second_ instance of Word opens with that second
page in it, instead of adding the second page to the first page in
single document. I don't see how to create a multiple page document if
I'm using Word as the application
Alternatively, I can scan into OCR and then change the OCR to pdf, and
that allows the creation of a multiple-page document, which I can then
save as a pdf. That seems the way to go. However, if I do scan into
OCR, the application I must use by default is the Lexmark Photo Editor,
and that doesn't sound like the right kind of application for pages that
are all text.
Another question. Let's say I scan 50 pages into the OCR and then turn
that into a pdf file. Then I go away and come back to do more pages
which get turned into a second pdf file. How do I combine the two pdf
files into a single file, keeping the correct order of the pages?
BTW, the Help files for the Lexmark are really poor. Everything is
broken into separate little steps, nothing gives you an overview of how
to proceed.
I appreciate any tips on this. Thanks much.
Larry
xeroxed pages into a single .pdf document. It is straight text. The
computer I'm using has the Lexmark 1100 all-in-one with a flat bed
scanner. I've never done a large scan job and have never created a pdf
document.
What is the best and fastest way to do this? Should I scan into Word,
and then change the Word documents to .pdf? The problem with that is
that when I pick Word as the application for the scanning, after a
single page is scanned, Word opens with that document in it. If I then
scan a second page, a _second_ instance of Word opens with that second
page in it, instead of adding the second page to the first page in
single document. I don't see how to create a multiple page document if
I'm using Word as the application
Alternatively, I can scan into OCR and then change the OCR to pdf, and
that allows the creation of a multiple-page document, which I can then
save as a pdf. That seems the way to go. However, if I do scan into
OCR, the application I must use by default is the Lexmark Photo Editor,
and that doesn't sound like the right kind of application for pages that
are all text.
Another question. Let's say I scan 50 pages into the OCR and then turn
that into a pdf file. Then I go away and come back to do more pages
which get turned into a second pdf file. How do I combine the two pdf
files into a single file, keeping the correct order of the pages?
BTW, the Help files for the Lexmark are really poor. Everything is
broken into separate little steps, nothing gives you an overview of how
to proceed.
I appreciate any tips on this. Thanks much.
Larry