Scanning large documents - help please!

Muppet81

I have some large document ats work which I need to scan and save. Some are up to 40 pages.

When I scan I get the option of using Adobe or Publisher. I have been using Adobe and this saves the image as a .jpeg although the quality is awful.

Is there any good scanning software which might help?

Is there a way of scanning all the pages which will presumably show as all seperate images and then of "tying them together" as a document so that all the pages will be linked?

Nilrem

jpg should be reasonable quality depending on the settings (check the dpi and jpg compression settings in the scanner drier, for print 300dpi and a mid to high jpg quality should be ok).
You'll need to sort that out first, as if the initial scan isn't being done at a sufficiently high quality you'll not be able to improve it much later (when I scan stuff in I tend to do it at very high res if i'm going to be manipulating the image at all, then reducing down later).

Your scanner might also come with software or the option in the software you are using to do multiple scans with the end result as a PDF (my canon 8800f has that option, and can scan multipe pages then output them in a multipage pdf), failing that third party software should be available to do the same sort of thing (adobe being the obvious one, although expensive).

What scanner are you using?

Muppet81

Hi,
I'm not near it now but it is one of the Hewlet Packard, Copy/Scan and Fax jobbies.
I will have a look when i am at work tomoroow and check some of the things you suggest. Thanks