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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

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

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