Help needed for settings with my scanner

pastmybest

I regularly need to scan coloured A4 sheets to create 4 page documents but am struggling to find the right way to do this without having really bloated file sizes.

Once scanned I put into a Word Doc, then create a PDF file with a proper Pdf software. To ensure the results are readable 4 pages is usually IRO 2mbs which is too high.

I also convert 4 page Word Docs, no scans, generated within Word but with photo inserts covering around 70% of all surface area and can get them down to 250kb and still good enough for screen reading.

So it is help with the scanning settings I could do with or what????

debitcardmayhem

Try scanning direct to PDF format

pastmybest

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

Try scanning direct to PDF format

No settings on the scanner that I can see to do that but tried printing the output jpeg to Pdf but file even bigger now?

Thanks for the suggestion though.

debitcardmayhem

pastmybest wrote: »

No settings on the scanner that I can see to do that but tried printing the output jpeg to Pdf but file even bigger now?

Thanks for the suggestion though.

Which PDF Software are you using and what scanner

pastmybest

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

Which PDF Software are you using and what scanner

Nitro PDF maker.

Scanner is Canon canoscan lide20.

debitcardmayhem

When you use canonscan utilities you should be able to output to pdf
I have not used NitroPDF(except for free Printer) but is there not an option in there to create a PDF from Scanner/Twain (there is Adobe Acrobat)

debitcardmayhem

Also try lowering the DPI settings when you scan

pastmybest

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

Also try lowering the DPI settings when you scan

I have been experimenting at 75, 100 but find that 300 is the one at which the end result is legible.

pastmybest

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

When you use canonscan utilities you should be able to output to pdf
I have not used NitroPDF(except for free Printer) but is there not an option in there to create a PDF from Scanner/Twain (there is Adobe Acrobat)

I have just checked Canon support for any new drivers but nothing. I guess the scanner is now quite old and perhaps new ones may have more functionality. I will experiment a little more and try Primo pdf creator but that is the free version of the Nitro.

Thanks again for tyring to get me sorted.

pastmybest

At last I seem to have got there but after spending most of the morning trying. The Canon scanner software interface is poor but I managed to dig right in and get it to scan to PDF and now my 4 pages are 320kb not 2mb.

debitcardmayhem
Again thanks for your input which spurred me on.

debitcardmayhem

lol , there is always an answer out there somewhere