Adobe Acrobat XI - Manual (Page 136)

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Creating PDFs
Last updated 1/14/2015
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 judgment. 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.
Scan a paper document to PDF using 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.
Scan a paper document to PDF without presets
In Acrobat, do one of the following:
• (Windows) Choose File > Create > PDF from Scanner > Custom Scan.
• (Mac OS) Choose File > Create > PDF from Scanner.
1 Select scanning options in the Scan dialog box, as needed, and then click Scan.
Note: If you specify that you want to use the native scanner user interface instead of the Acrobat user interface, other
windows or dialog boxes appear. Consult the scanner documentation information on available options. In Mac OS, the
scanner user interface is always shown.
2 If prompted to scan more pages, select Scan More Pages, Scan Reverse Sides, or Scan Is Complete, and click OK.
Optimize a scanned PDF
1 Open a PDF created from a scanned document.
2 Choose Tools > Document Processing > Optimize Scanned PDF.
3 Select options in the Optimize Scanned PDF dialog box, and click OK.
Configure scanning presets (Windows)
1 Choose File > Create > PDF from Scanner > Configure Presets.
2 In the Configure Presets dialog box, select a preset: Autodetect Color Mode, Black & White Document, Grayscale
Document, Color Document, or Color Image.
3 Adjust the settings as needed.
4 Click Save to save the preset, and then click Close.