MS office - PDF

VeNT · 8 Apr 2006 at 18:01

ok, I've got the latest vertion of office here, and I've got a 20 page printed text document, is there anything in office that will let me scan this in and save it to PDF?

benjo plz. · 8 Apr 2006 at 18:01

You'll probably need Adobe software.

If you want to send it to me (so long as it's not sensitive etc) I'll save it as a pdf. You'll be needing acrobat to save as pdf though.

VeNT · 8 Apr 2006 at 18:05

unfortunetly it is sensitive document and I've signed a NDA for it so sending it arounds a no no.
you sure the only way is to use acrobat? I know I can save word docs as PDFs in open office, maybe a OCR prog will let me import it into word? ideas?

benjo plz. · 8 Apr 2006 at 18:07

An OCR prog might let you save it as a PDF, but you probably won't be able to edit it. If you can do it in open office, get open office, as its free.

VeNT · 8 Apr 2006 at 18:10

can't scan it in using oo.o

benjo plz. · 8 Apr 2006 at 18:13

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Can you, scan it into word, save it as a doc, then open it in oo and then save it as a pdf?

Lucifurr · 8 Apr 2006 at 18:14

Well If you can scan the document usinng OCR and edit it in Office, you can use a toll called Primo PDF to "print" the document into PDF format.

Primo

benjo plz. · 8 Apr 2006 at 18:15

Lucifurr said:
you can use a toll called Primo PDF to "print" the document into PDF format.
Primo

O_o, yeh that'll do the job.

VeNT · 8 Apr 2006 at 18:23

now all I have to do is find a OCR prog thats not too bad but free.

masterk · 8 Apr 2006 at 20:45

If you could do this without Adobe Standard then Adobe would be out of business

bledd · 9 Apr 2006 at 12:26

the newest office has pdf support

this program can convert anything with a print function into pdf

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4511

it'll add the pdf creator as a new printer on your pc, you setup the options for it, like where it saves, etc, then go to print, and select the pdf printer and voila, document created

bledd · 9 Apr 2006 at 12:27

masterk said:
If you could do this without Adobe Standard then Adobe would be out of business

see my post!

adobe are still very in business!

PinkPig · 9 Apr 2006 at 12:36

If you can scan each page in and arrange them as a document in any software, then something like http://www.pdf995.com/ will let you convert it to a PDF file.

VeNT · 9 Apr 2006 at 13:25

yeah, the issue is getting it as a doc, I've no OCR software and it needs to be editable later

benjo plz. · 9 Apr 2006 at 13:28

You'll need some ocr software then. There are free ocr progs out there, but they won't be that good.http://www.charactell.com/scanstore/InstSocr.exe

Rambaud · 9 Apr 2006 at 13:45

I have a couple of programs I use for this - they work with Office, web browsers etc - anything which can be printed:

PDF Factory Pro

PDFill PDF Writer

No need for any scanning etc.

benjo plz. · 9 Apr 2006 at 13:48

Rambaud said:
No need for any scanning etc.

unless the stuff you want to get into the pdf is on paper.

VeNT · 9 Apr 2006 at 14:16

Phnom_Penh said:
unless the stuff you want to get into the pdf is on paper.

like mine!

M0KUJ1N · 9 Apr 2006 at 15:16

I think you'll be struggling to find a free OCR application, as it is a bit of a niche market, with 3 main market leaders: ABBYY Finereader, Omnipage and Readiris. Readiris do however offer a 30-day trial version so if its a one-off job you may as well go for that option

Also you quite often get OCR software bundled with high-end scanners.

benjo plz. · 9 Apr 2006 at 15:32

VeNT said:
like mine!

yep. Is the scanner yours or company owned?