Scanning to PDF or word

[buddam]

2 questions:

1. I've just bought a Canon Pixma MP610 all-in-one. The software allows me to scan to the PC as jpeg, tiff, etc but not as pdf or word. I wonder if there is any freeware that allows this. The bundled OmniPage 4 software requires a $199 upgrdae to allow for pdf scanning - ouch!

2. when I scan as pdf is there a way to scan say a 10-page document into a 10-page pdf or do I need to make 10 separate files?

Thanks

Adrian

[staccato123]

Do you need the documents OCRed? (i.e. 'read' by the software so you can edit the text?)

[buddam]

sometimes yes, but often I just need them PDFed. Why?

[Bettina]

Open Office allows you to save a document as PDF. You might be able to put individual JPEGs onto new document and then save as PDF. Maybe. Haven't yet tried.

[staccato123]

As Bettina says, you can just use OpenOffice to get the JPGs as PDFs, but if you require OCR, which you seem to, then you'll need a proper package which is not always included with the scanner.

At work we use Abby FineReader, but I can't vouch for that being the current best buy.

[Roy5051]

Scan into OpenOffice by

Insert>Picture>Scan>Request then File>Export as PDF. As it is now a "picture" you will not be able to edit the text, of course. Tab down to greate the next page, scan the next document into the second page, etc. When you have scanned all the documents, export as PDF and you will create one file, which can be opened in Acrobat.

[Monobod]

Using jpeg may create a very large pdf though.

Have you tried 'cutepdf' searh for it on Google.