Scanning hard copy to create PDF?

I just downloaded ReaderXI. I cannot figure out how to scan a hard copy of a document and create a PDF. PLEASE HELP!!

I believe, you can't in Reader. In full Acrobat you can do this:
File >> create PDF >> From Scanner (this is in version 9.5.2)
You can download trial version of Acrobat XI and try it on your machine for 30 days.
Good luck.

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I suspect that what you are asking is simply to print to a new PDF with print as image selected. You can also save as an image file and then open the images as a new PDF.

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Here's my situation:
I have a paper questionaire that new clients are required to fill out. Sometimes the questionaire is not filled out entirely or correctly, so when we meet with the client we have to correct it. It would be easy for us to use a PDF form to fill in the missing data, but the trick is getting the information that was already completed.
What would be ideal is if I could create a form template or something that would allow us to scan the paper document on which the client has written information into a PDF and have fields already set for us to fill in missing data. I don't need any OCR magic or anything like that - I just want to make it possible for us to type easily into this form while retaining the client's hand-written work.
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I considered that, but I'd like to avoid it for a couple of reasons:
1. My users would have to learn to type within the lines. While that sounds like a simple task, you'd be amazed by the grumbling I'd get if I told people they'd have to wrap their own lines.
2. I want to retain the form fields nice features such as autosizing the font so that all the data will fit in the field.
I thought of a possibility after you posted that I think I'll give a try. I'm going to create a fillable form on a blank PDF. I'll then use the SDK to insert the scanned document as a watermark on the blank PDF. If I can tie it in to the shell so a user can right-click on a scanned PDF and automate the whole process that would be perfect.
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1. Find the file acroscanbroker.exe
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I am new to creating PDF forms using Acrobat Pro 9. I have been asked by my manager to sort out a way we can create a survey (for staff)and have the data input to the survey, processed and compiled ready for an analyst to create a report of the data.
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I hope I have explained that clear enough...;-)
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By itself Acrobat does not "compile data".
By the way nothing compiles data from a picture. All scanners output a picture of the scanned paper (that is, an image file such as TIFF).
Acrobat can perform Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of the picture of text.
The OCR output is the characters - no format, tables, rows, columns, no text styling, etc.
So harvesting useful information can pose something of a challenge.
You may want to consider manually compiling the results.
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I've got a HP deskjet 3050A and my operating system is Windows 7, how to scan a hard copy to pdf that I can convert to word for editing?
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Hi,
The software provided for your device does not include OCR functionality
You may use any 3rd part OCR solution to scan as editable text.
If you have Microsoft Office suite there is a good chance the office suite provide this kind of capabilities:
Office 2007 or 2010:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/14595/ocr-anything-with-onenote-2007-and-2010/
Office 2003:
http://agsci.psu.edu/it/how-to/perform-ocr-with-microsoft-office-2003-document-imaging
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Shlomi
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