Topic 10: Scanning a Document

Scanning a document is a simple process with Adobe Acrobat Pro.  The following screen shots will show you how to do so with Acrobat Pro(where you can save as a PDF, among other possibilities not covered).  Please note that you can also save as a PDF in Photoshop, but Acrobat Pro will let you continuously add additional pages to the PDF until you are finished.

Let's start by opening Acrobat Pro.  The first step in scanning is opening the program you wish to scan from.  So, well open Acrobat Pro.  These screen shots are taken from a public machine using the previous Windows XP image.  Please note, once the program is located on Windows 7 the process is the same.

Once Acrobat Pro opens your objective is to create a PDF, which is easily done by clicking "Create" in the top left hand corner of Acrobat, then clicking "PDF from Scanner" from the drop down menu.  Go ahead and place the paper face down on the scanner screen at this time.

You'll pick what kind of document you're scanning (Grayscale, Color, etc.) (choose Grayscale for this exercise) then the scanner will begin it's work.  At the conclusion of scanning the first page Acrobat will ask you if you're done, or would like to keep adding pages.  If you want to keep going, change the paper out, then click "Scan more pages" until you are done.  Once you are done click "Scan is Complete."  The following two screen shots show the scan in action and your options after the scan.

If you're finished with the scan you can choose "Scan is Complete" and your completed scan will appear.  You can now choose to save the file as you wish.  The following screen shot shows a completed scan with the "Save As" option highlighted on the drop down.