User manual

Creating Adobe PDF files from paper documents
You can create an Adobe PDF file directly from a paper document using a scanner.
During scanning, you can specify whether to create a searchable Adobe PDF file by
applying optical character recognition (OCR) while scanning, or create an image-only
PDF file--that is, a bitmap picture of the pages that can be viewed but not searched.
If you create an image-only PDF file and later want to search, correct, or copy text in the
file, or make the file accessible to vision and motion impaired users, you can use the
Recognize Text Using OCR command to run OCR and find the characters. (See
Converting image-only scanned pages to searchable text.)
Note: If you need to convert large volumes of legacy paper documents into searchable
PDF archives, consider purchasing the Adobe Acrobat® Capture® software.
Related Subtopics:
Converting scanned pages to Adobe PDF
Using Image Settings options
Scanning tips
Converting image-only scanned pages to searchable text
Correcting words on converted pages