How to Turn Off the Overview Scan in Acrobat Pro DC?

[ander163]

Is there a way to stop the Overview scan when using the flatbed scanner?  I do not want to waste the few seconds for Acrobat to do a preview or overview scan before I am able to actually Scan the document.

I'm connect to a Brother Multifunction printer / scanner (MFC7360N) via USB cable and running on a Mac with current system software.

Thanks in advance.

[YatharthS]

Hi ander163,

Would like to inform you that there is no way with which we can stop that feature in Acrobat. This is the way in which interface is designed .

Regards,

Yatharth

[ander163]

This should be a selectable option.

I NEVER need this pre-scan, so it wastes time and wears out my scanner twice as fast.

Nor is it a requirement - others don't do it. I'm looking at you, PDFScanner.

Rex C. Anderson

Law Office of Rex C. Anderson, PC

Scottsdale Arizona

[thebuckler]

Couldn't agree more. What a horrible UI!

[Lovekesh Garg]

Yes, you can do this.

- Go to ICA window once and select all settings you want to scan with.

- Select the button "Hide Details" (at the bottom of the window close to overview) prior to click scan.

- Scan from this window

- Now onwards it won't do overview/prescan.

But if you want to change these settings you will have to go back and select show details which will rerun the overview.

Hope it will resolve your problem.

Thanks.

[thebuckler]

This works to stop the overview scan, but it creates other problems. For one thing, it won't let me scan in "Text" mode and keeps switching to "Black & White." In addition, every time I switch back to "Show Details" it also changes the size setting to A4. Not very helpful.