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USING ACROBAT X PRO
Creating PDFs
Last updated 10/11/2011
3 When a message appears asking if you want to overwrite the existing file, click OK.
You can also quickly enable Fast Web View in entire folders of Adobe PDF files by using a the Prepare for Web
Publishing action. See “Run an action” on page 314.
Scan documents to PDF
Scan a paper document to PDF
You can create a PDF file directly from a paper document, using your scanner and Acrobat. On Windows, Acrobat
supports TWAIN scanner drivers and Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) drivers.
In Windows, you can either use the Autodetect color mode and let Acrobat determine the paper document’s content
type, or use other presets (Black & White Document, Grayscale Document, Color Image, and Color Document) based
on your judgement. You can configure the scanning presets or use the Custom Scan option to scan with the settings
of your choice.
Note: Preset scanning is available only for scanner drivers that support Hide Scanner’s Native Interface mode. The
scanning presets are not available on Mac OS.
In Windows, if a WIA driver is installed for your scanner, you can use the Scan button on your scanner to create a
PDF. Press the Scan button, and then in Windows, choose Adobe Acrobat from the list of registered applications.
Then, in the Acrobat Scan dialog box, select a scanner and a document preset or Custom Scan.
After you scan a document to PDF, you can apply security settings using one of the security or batch processing
methods in Acrobat, or using JavaScript. For more information see the documents at
learn.adobe.com/wiki/display/security/Document+Library.
For more information on scanning, see these resources:
• See a video on how to convert a scanned document into a PDF: www.adobe.com/go/lrvid_024_acrx_en
• Troubleshooting scanning and OCR: www.acrobatusers.com/tutorials/troubleshoot-scanning-and-ocr
• How to edit a scanned PDF: www.adobe.com/go/learn_acr_edit_scans_en
• How to extract active text from an image: www.peachpit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1272051
More Help topics
“Choosing a security method” on page 221
“About Actions” on page 343
“Creating and distributing forms” on page 175
Scan a paper document to PDF using a Autodetect Color Mode (Windows)
1 Choose File > Create > PDF from Scanner > Autodetect Color Mode.
2 If prompted to scan more pages, select Scan More Pages, Scan Reverse Sides, or Scan Is Complete, and click OK.
Scan a paper document to PDF using a preset (Windows)
1 Choose File > Create > PDF from Scanner > [document preset].
2 If prompted to scan more pages, select Scan More Pages, Scan Reverse Sides, or Scan Is Complete, and click OK.
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