Help w/ Scanning Images

[TygGer]

When I scan a large document (>25 pages) using almost the lowest bitmap resolution into PDF, the file size is too large (3-4megs) to email.

Is there another program or suggestion of how to scan large files keeping the size relatively small and email-able.

Thanks

 

[LiLithTecH]

Depending the software you are using, scanning as BITMAP IMAGES is not the way to scan.
If you can, set to JPG or PNG (to use compression).

Are you using an OCR program to scan Text document with images?

 

[TygGer]

Is Adobe Acrobat an OCR program? That's what I use.

 

[GroundZero]

if you are using acrobat you can acually do a page capture from your scanner,
also just about any pdf you create with that many pages will be rather large and therefore not e-mailable.

 

[TygGer]

Page capture? I just do an import --> scan to scan the documents. Messing around, I've found that bitmap was the smallest file size avaible in the drop down.

Scanned PDFs are soooo much larger than files converted into PDF; given the same number of pages.

 

[happyhelper]

you could use something like paperport to scan the periodical into an MS Word file, then print it to pdf, should be smaller, but still, as a pdf it will be bigger than most email servers allow. You could just use winrar or hjsplit to split the pdf into smaller files that the email servers will allow, then email them, then have the receiver rejoin them with the same program. Also, you could use a free web space and upload the pdf to it, and email the link to the pdf to the receiver and he could download it from the link.

 

[LiLithTecH]

Have you setup a Scanner Profile for yourself in Acrobat? ( Document \ Preflight )
It will seem like there are a lot of options (and there are), just think logically about
what you are trying to accomplish and it should go pretty easy.
Don't worry about screwing anything up, you can always delete any Profiles.

You can choose to use JPEG or JPEG2000 compression.
I believe the default is Bitmap for images under 500ppi.

If it confuses you, a program such as OmniPage or Paperport may be better suited for you.