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Becky54
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June 15, 2020
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Scanning in Acrobat DC

  • June 15, 2020
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I have just downloaded Adobe Acrobat DC and have a question about the Scanner window;  

I have Adobe Acrobat Pro 8 on a different computer and the Scanner window looks completely different, can someone send me a pic of the DC scanner window.

It would be greatly appreciated.

Becky

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    gary_sc
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    gary_scCommunity Expert
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    June 15, 2020

    Hi Becky,

     

    I'm going to guess you are on a Mac, correct? The difference between what you had with Acro-8 and now is that Apple ceased to continue using a plugin called Twain becuase of security reasons.

     

    What Twain did was to provide a link between two different programs, in this case a link from Acrobat to your scanner's software. You can't do that now from Acrobat or any other program. What Apple did to make up for this is to have the application Image Capture fill in that roll. So you are NOT looking at your scanner's software as you used to but rather you are looking at Image Capture. 

     

    Let me add here at this point that the only thing that can scan a page is image scanning software. Acrobat cannot scan, Photoshop cannot scan, etc., etc.

     

    Let me also add that Image Capture is one of the worst image scanning software applications I've even encountered and I've been scanning for at least 30 years.

     

    So what do I recommend? Here's the process that I use: Create a folder on your Desktop (or whatever convenient place you want), give it whatever name you want. Use the software that came with your scanner. Note, it may have multiple levels of use (e.g., home, office, professional or something like that). Set it to Professional. Set it to scan at at least 300 ppi and 100%, scan in color if the document has color, scan in B&W if there's no color. Save the document as a TIF image, not jpg. Scan all of your images. 

     

    After your scanning is done for that document Look at the images and make sure that the first one is the first one (sometimes scanning software will hav (assuming taht you have a multipage document)e "page.tif, page 2.tif. page 3.tif" If you see this, manually add " 1" to the first page so that the pages are in alphabetical order). Select all of the images and drag them onto the Acrobat icon in your Dock. You will be asked if you want to combine all of the pages into a single document, say yes. 

     

    Acrobat will crank for a while and then will open up a new multipage document that you will love.

     

    If I'm wrong in the first part, I know I'm not wrong in the 2nd part. 

     

    BTW, fi you want to make great looking PDFs, check out this blog I wrote for Adobe:

    http://photosbycoyne.com/Gary's_Help/Scanning/clean-scanning.html

     

    Let me know if you have any questions.

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