[Clark]

First, if anyone knows of an efficient way to do this, please advise.

I have 30 pages I need to scan into Word 2003 and then make a pdf file from
them. I have 300 pages total, but only 30 at a time.

I am using an HP 5470c scanner and when I insert the scanned document using
the insert command from Word, it seems to work OK. But if I change the
margins in Page Setup, to make the image closer to actual size, the image
gets much larger and parts are cut off, and cannot be recovered by resizing
the image.

If I choose "Insert" picture from scanner, I have a choice of the scanner or
the HP utility. If I choose the scanner, the entire glass is not scanned
and some information at the bottom is lost. If I choose the HP utility, I
can control what is scanned, but the utility shuts down and the next page,
the settings have to be re-entered. If I leave the HP utility open and use
the "send to" option, it will only be inserted into the first page, and not
where the cursor is located (this is a big problem). I have tried a
CTRL-ENTER to create a new page, but it still goes to the first page.

So, some specific questions:
Is there a way to make Word scan the entire page?
Is there a way to get the HP utility to "send to" Word on another page
beside the first?

Basically, I need advice on how to scan images (no OCR) into Word and make
them look like the originals. This may be involved with the HP software,
but I am having problems telling what controls the scans since doing the
exact same action will yield different results.

Thanks,
Clark

[Eric]

If you need to get to PDF, why not scan right to PDF? My HP software allows
me to scan right to a PDF.

"Clark" wrote:

First, if anyone knows of an efficient way to do this, please advise.

I have 30 pages I need to scan into Word 2003 and then make a pdf file from
them. I have 300 pages total, but only 30 at a time.

I am using an HP 5470c scanner and when I insert the scanned document using
the insert command from Word, it seems to work OK. But if I change the
margins in Page Setup, to make the image closer to actual size, the image
gets much larger and parts are cut off, and cannot be recovered by resizing
the image.

If I choose "Insert" picture from scanner, I have a choice of the scanner or
the HP utility. If I choose the scanner, the entire glass is not scanned
and some information at the bottom is lost. If I choose the HP utility, I
can control what is scanned, but the utility shuts down and the next page,
the settings have to be re-entered. If I leave the HP utility open and use
the "send to" option, it will only be inserted into the first page, and not
where the cursor is located (this is a big problem). I have tried a
CTRL-ENTER to create a new page, but it still goes to the first page.

So, some specific questions:
Is there a way to make Word scan the entire page?
Is there a way to get the HP utility to "send to" Word on another page
beside the first?

Basically, I need advice on how to scan images (no OCR) into Word and make
them look like the originals. This may be involved with the HP software,
but I am having problems telling what controls the scans since doing the
exact same action will yield different results.

Thanks,
Clark

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

If you have Adobe Acrobat 5 or later (the full version, not just
the free Adobe Reader), then you should be able to scan directly
to Acrobat (you don't need to scan into Word and then convert to
..pdf).

Clark wrote:

First, if anyone knows of an efficient way to do this, please advise.

I have 30 pages I need to scan into Word 2003 and then make a pdf file from
them. I have 300 pages total, but only 30 at a time.

I am using an HP 5470c scanner and when I insert the scanned document using
the insert command from Word, it seems to work OK. But if I change the
margins in Page Setup, to make the image closer to actual size, the image
gets much larger and parts are cut off, and cannot be recovered by resizing
the image.

If I choose "Insert" picture from scanner, I have a choice of the scanner or
the HP utility. If I choose the scanner, the entire glass is not scanned
and some information at the bottom is lost. If I choose the HP utility, I
can control what is scanned, but the utility shuts down and the next page,
the settings have to be re-entered. If I leave the HP utility open and use
the "send to" option, it will only be inserted into the first page, and not
where the cursor is located (this is a big problem). I have tried a
CTRL-ENTER to create a new page, but it still goes to the first page.

So, some specific questions:
Is there a way to make Word scan the entire page?
Is there a way to get the HP utility to "send to" Word on another page
beside the first?

Basically, I need advice on how to scan images (no OCR) into Word and make
them look like the originals. This may be involved with the HP software,
but I am having problems telling what controls the scans since doing the
exact same action will yield different results.

Thanks,
Clark

[Clark]

I don't think my HP software will do that, at least not what I have
installed now. I also do not have a complete PDF package, so I was going to
use one of the free PDF printers to make the PDF after I had loaded the
images in Word.

Clark

"Eric" wrote in message
...
If you need to get to PDF, why not scan right to PDF? My HP software
allows
me to scan right to a PDF.

"Clark" wrote:

First, if anyone knows of an efficient way to do this, please advise.

I have 30 pages I need to scan into Word 2003 and then make a pdf file
from
them. I have 300 pages total, but only 30 at a time.

I am using an HP 5470c scanner and when I insert the scanned document
using
the insert command from Word, it seems to work OK. But if I change the
margins in Page Setup, to make the image closer to actual size, the image
gets much larger and parts are cut off, and cannot be recovered by
resizing
the image.

If I choose "Insert" picture from scanner, I have a choice of the scanner
or
the HP utility. If I choose the scanner, the entire glass is not scanned
and some information at the bottom is lost. If I choose the HP utility,
I
can control what is scanned, but the utility shuts down and the next
page,
the settings have to be re-entered. If I leave the HP utility open and
use
the "send to" option, it will only be inserted into the first page, and
not
where the cursor is located (this is a big problem). I have tried a
CTRL-ENTER to create a new page, but it still goes to the first page.

So, some specific questions:
Is there a way to make Word scan the entire page?
Is there a way to get the HP utility to "send to" Word on another page
beside the first?

Basically, I need advice on how to scan images (no OCR) into Word and
make
them look like the originals. This may be involved with the HP software,
but I am having problems telling what controls the scans since doing the
exact same action will yield different results.

Thanks,
Clark

[Clark]

My HP software will allow me to print to a PDF, since I have installed a
free PDF writer, but it doesn't appear it will allow me to do multiple pages
at once. If I had a full version of something so I could combine (merge)
several PDFs into 1, I might do that, but I don't have it. That is why I am
trying to scan all 30 pages into Word and then make a PDF. It should work
that way, just very time consuming..

If I can't get it to go, I might have to buy a PDF writer with the
capability of merging files, but since this is a one time only project, I
hate to spend the money.

Thanks for the responses,
Clark

"garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote in
message ...
If you have Adobe Acrobat 5 or later (the full version, not just the free
Adobe Reader), then you should be able to scan directly to Acrobat (you
don't need to scan into Word and then convert to .pdf).

Clark wrote:

First, if anyone knows of an efficient way to do this, please advise.

I have 30 pages I need to scan into Word 2003 and then make a pdf file
from them. I have 300 pages total, but only 30 at a time.

I am using an HP 5470c scanner and when I insert the scanned document
using the insert command from Word, it seems to work OK. But if I change
the margins in Page Setup, to make the image closer to actual size, the
image gets much larger and parts are cut off, and cannot be recovered by
resizing the image.

If I choose "Insert" picture from scanner, I have a choice of the scanner
or the HP utility. If I choose the scanner, the entire glass is not
scanned and some information at the bottom is lost. If I choose the HP
utility, I can control what is scanned, but the utility shuts down and
the next page, the settings have to be re-entered. If I leave the HP
utility open and use the "send to" option, it will only be inserted into
the first page, and not where the cursor is located (this is a big
problem). I have tried a CTRL-ENTER to create a new page, but it still
goes to the first page.

So, some specific questions:
Is there a way to make Word scan the entire page?
Is there a way to get the HP utility to "send to" Word on another page
beside the first?

Basically, I need advice on how to scan images (no OCR) into Word and
make them look like the originals. This may be involved with the HP
software, but I am having problems telling what controls the scans since
doing the exact same action will yield different results.

Thanks,
Clark

[Clark]

I found the way to get the HP software to write multiple pages to the PDF
file. It seems to work great and will save me hours!! I had to select
"Text & Image" in the HP Precisionscan Pro software, so it would save as a
PDF and ask if more pages needed to be added.

Thanks folks,
Clark

"garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote in
message ...
If you have Adobe Acrobat 5 or later (the full version, not just the free
Adobe Reader), then you should be able to scan directly to Acrobat (you
don't need to scan into Word and then convert to .pdf).

Clark wrote:

First, if anyone knows of an efficient way to do this, please advise.

I have 30 pages I need to scan into Word 2003 and then make a pdf file
from them. I have 300 pages total, but only 30 at a time.

I am using an HP 5470c scanner and when I insert the scanned document
using the insert command from Word, it seems to work OK. But if I change
the margins in Page Setup, to make the image closer to actual size, the
image gets much larger and parts are cut off, and cannot be recovered by
resizing the image.

If I choose "Insert" picture from scanner, I have a choice of the scanner
or the HP utility. If I choose the scanner, the entire glass is not
scanned and some information at the bottom is lost. If I choose the HP
utility, I can control what is scanned, but the utility shuts down and
the next page, the settings have to be re-entered. If I leave the HP
utility open and use the "send to" option, it will only be inserted into
the first page, and not where the cursor is located (this is a big
problem). I have tried a CTRL-ENTER to create a new page, but it still
goes to the first page.

So, some specific questions:
Is there a way to make Word scan the entire page?
Is there a way to get the HP utility to "send to" Word on another page
beside the first?

Basically, I need advice on how to scan images (no OCR) into Word and
make them look like the originals. This may be involved with the HP
software, but I am having problems telling what controls the scans since
doing the exact same action will yield different results.

Thanks,
Clark

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

No matter how you scan (if your HP software is similar to mine), there's a
check box for "Prompt to scan another page." If you check that, it will ask
whether you want to add another scan to the same document even if you're
scanning to plain text.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"Clark" wrote in message
...
I found the way to get the HP software to write multiple pages to the PDF
file. It seems to work great and will save me hours!! I had to select
"Text & Image" in the HP Precisionscan Pro software, so it would save as a
PDF and ask if more pages needed to be added.

Thanks folks,
Clark

"garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote in
message ...
If you have Adobe Acrobat 5 or later (the full version, not just the
free
Adobe Reader), then you should be able to scan directly to Acrobat (you
don't need to scan into Word and then convert to .pdf).

Clark wrote:

First, if anyone knows of an efficient way to do this, please advise.

I have 30 pages I need to scan into Word 2003 and then make a pdf file
from them. I have 300 pages total, but only 30 at a time.

I am using an HP 5470c scanner and when I insert the scanned document
using the insert command from Word, it seems to work OK. But if I
change
the margins in Page Setup, to make the image closer to actual size, the
image gets much larger and parts are cut off, and cannot be recovered
by
resizing the image.

If I choose "Insert" picture from scanner, I have a choice of the
scanner
or the HP utility. If I choose the scanner, the entire glass is not
scanned and some information at the bottom is lost. If I choose the HP
utility, I can control what is scanned, but the utility shuts down and
the next page, the settings have to be re-entered. If I leave the HP
utility open and use the "send to" option, it will only be inserted
into
the first page, and not where the cursor is located (this is a big
problem). I have tried a CTRL-ENTER to create a new page, but it still
goes to the first page.

So, some specific questions:
Is there a way to make Word scan the entire page?
Is there a way to get the HP utility to "send to" Word on another page
beside the first?

Basically, I need advice on how to scan images (no OCR) into Word and
make them look like the originals. This may be involved with the HP
software, but I am having problems telling what controls the scans
since
doing the exact same action will yield different results.

Thanks,
Clark

[Clark]

OK, thanks. I think I was installing software for the PDF writer and some
options weren't available until I restarted. They are now, and the
resulting file is much smaller than putting it in Word first.

Clark

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
No matter how you scan (if your HP software is similar to mine), there's a
check box for "Prompt to scan another page." If you check that, it will
ask
whether you want to add another scan to the same document even if you're
scanning to plain text.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup
so
all may benefit.

"Clark" wrote in message
...
I found the way to get the HP software to write multiple pages to the PDF
file. It seems to work great and will save me hours!! I had to select
"Text & Image" in the HP Precisionscan Pro software, so it would save as
a
PDF and ask if more pages needed to be added.

Thanks folks,
Clark

"garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote
in
message ...
If you have Adobe Acrobat 5 or later (the full version, not just the
free
Adobe Reader), then you should be able to scan directly to Acrobat (you
don't need to scan into Word and then convert to .pdf).

Clark wrote:

First, if anyone knows of an efficient way to do this, please advise.

I have 30 pages I need to scan into Word 2003 and then make a pdf file
from them. I have 300 pages total, but only 30 at a time.

I am using an HP 5470c scanner and when I insert the scanned document
using the insert command from Word, it seems to work OK. But if I
change
the margins in Page Setup, to make the image closer to actual size,
the
image gets much larger and parts are cut off, and cannot be recovered
by
resizing the image.

If I choose "Insert" picture from scanner, I have a choice of the
scanner
or the HP utility. If I choose the scanner, the entire glass is not
scanned and some information at the bottom is lost. If I choose the
HP
utility, I can control what is scanned, but the utility shuts down and
the next page, the settings have to be re-entered. If I leave the HP
utility open and use the "send to" option, it will only be inserted
into
the first page, and not where the cursor is located (this is a big
problem). I have tried a CTRL-ENTER to create a new page, but it
still
goes to the first page.

So, some specific questions:
Is there a way to make Word scan the entire page?
Is there a way to get the HP utility to "send to" Word on another page
beside the first?

Basically, I need advice on how to scan images (no OCR) into Word and
make them look like the originals. This may be involved with the HP
software, but I am having problems telling what controls the scans
since
doing the exact same action will yield different results.

Thanks,
Clark