Scan-To-PDF

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With PDF Studio, you can scan images using any TWAIN compliant scanner straight into an existing or a new PDF document.

To initiate scanning to PDF:

1. Click on the scanner button on the toolbar or choose Scan->Scan To PDF from the menu and the program will guide you through scanning the image and then inserting the scan into the current document or into a new document:
   
   
   
   
   
2. When the scanning function is invoked, the first step is to choose the TWAIN source. TWAIN is the standard software interface to any scanner hardware. Most every scanner comes with TWAIN drivers that are installed automatically when you install the scanner in your computer. Please refer to your scanner documentation if the program reports that there are no TWAIN sources available. After the scan button is pressed, the program will display a dialog box to let the user choose which scanner to use. The selection dialog will look something like this:
   
   
   
   
   The choices in the dialog box will vary according to the scanner(s) installed on your system. Choose a scanner from the list and click on the Ok button to proceed.
   
   
3. When the Ok button is pressed, the program will invoke your scanner's custom scanning user interface. This is a separate program that will normally allow you to preview the scan, choose a region to scan and other options such as scan resolution and then accept the scan.
   
   
4. Once the scan has been accepted and PDF Studio has received the data from the scanner software, PDF Studio will display a dialog box showing some information about the scan and will prompt you for a number of choices to determine how to insert the new image:
   
   
   
   

There are multiple options to control how to insert the image into a PDF document:

• Insert At: This option tells the program where to insert the new image. The choices are:
  • End Of Document: The image will be inserted at the end of the current document.
  • Current Page: The image will be inserted after the current page.
  • Beginning of Document: The image will be inserted as the first page in the current document.
  • New Document: The program creates a new PDF document and inserts the image in the first page.
    
• Page Size: This option tells the program what size to use when creating a new page to hold the image. The options are:
  • Size To Image: The new page will be created the same size as the scanned image.
  • Same As Document: The new page will be created the same size as the first page in the current document. If the document is empty or if the Insert At choice is set to New Document the new page will be created the same size as the scanned image.
    
• Resolution: This option tells the program what resolution to use when saving the image into the PDF document. The choices are:
  • PDF Resolution (72 DPI): The image will be resized so that the resolution is 72 DPI. 72 DPI is the standard resolution in PDF documents.
  • Keep Original: The image will be inserted at the scanned resolution. Keep in mind that scanners can scan images at very high resolutions (600+ DPI). If images are kept at their original resolution, the resulting PDF documents can be extremely large.
    
• Compression: This option tells the program what compression to use when saving the image into the PDF document. The choices are:
  • JPEG (recommended compression)
  • Deflate (Similar to zip)
    
• Qual (for JPEG compression only): If using JPEG, the compression quality can be adjusted from 1 to 100 percent:
  • 1 = very high compression - very low quality
  • 100 = low compression - very high quality
    Suggested values are 80 = high quality, 50 = medium quality, 20 = low quality

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