I have an HP psc 1315 all in one scanner and I want to scan some things into PDF so I can email them. Does anybody know of good software for this? Especially free/cheap software? I've done some googling and the software I've found is in the ballpark of $100. No thanks. I know openoffice.org coverts to PDF. Can I scan into openoffice?
What mc mark means is use an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software to recognize whatever is on the scan, then convert to WORD. What is the purpose of e-mailing them? Do you just NOT want to type them over? OCR is your best bet. Leave PDF for outputting large brochures, documents in general, et. al. , that can't be sent to someone who doesn't have their original editor. WORD documents can be ZIPPED and sent and downloaded faster. I don't recall ever doing SCAN-to-PDF for documents I typed. I simply OUTPUT WORD to PDF, like mcmark said. You can scan into anything. What is it exactly that you're scanning?
Yeah, you're right SwoLy-D. I should have been a little more detailed. Nolen Even if your scan program scans into a 'jpeg or tiff (if its a picture). You can just send that file. Why does it have to be PDF?
Only thing that comes to mind is software called Desktop Binder, but that badboy is for the business world and may cost a few dollars...
When you scan what program does the file open in? Can't you just print that to PDF? I always scan in Photoshop and print to PDF but I imagine that if the scan opens in Paint or something else as long as you have a PDF writer you could just print to PDF. If you want a free PDF writer there's several out there. I've used one called PDF995 that works pretty well. As another poster said if your scan program saves it as JPG or TIF just email those.
I'm looking to do this to my passport, along with other documents that I need to send to europe. With photos, signiatures, stamps, and other stuff involved OCR won't cut it. Scanning to PDF and emailing is the new way to fax, baby. I guess I could just save it as a jpeg but I'm going to bet a .pdf file would be way smaller. Scanning it in pdf guarantees that the recipient can look at it/print it exactly as is. Although jpeg is also a very common file format, you can never be sure how a jpeg will print out on another computer. Never have to worry about that with Acrobat. It'll be the same everywhere.
I have never ever traveled outside the U.S. with a passport, much less to Europe but, why would you have to send anything ahead of time? SHouldn't you carry this with you? Please explain why you would have to send this to someone before you arrive.
Ding ding ding. I have a gig there. They need some paperwork before we sign contracts, etc. I don't want to do this by snail mail.
