Page History

You can scan book chapters, magazine pages, documents, and brochures into .*pdf PDF files with Adobe Acrobat Epson Scan 2 using the faltbad flatbed scanners located at stations 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 164.

Scanning a book/magazine/brochure/document into a PDF file with

...

Epson Scan 2

1. Turn on the scanner. Lay the page face down on the flatbed of the scanner.  
2. Open Adobe Acrobat X Professional.
3. In the upper-left hand corner of the window, click on the button "Create" and from the drop-down menu choose PDF from Scanner -> Custom Scan.
Choose
4. Align it to the upper right corner or upper left corner following the arrow sign on the different model of scanners.
5. Open Epson Scan 2
6. Select the right scan settings based on the document type
   Image Added
   1. for a book or document that is just text, doesn't have any colors and images/figures, choose document
      
      Image Added
   2. a book or document that has black and white images/figures, select "Document", Grayscale, 300pdi. The scan settings will become "Not Selected". 
      Image Added
      
      
   3. for a book or document with color images/figures, choose Photograph
7. Check the box of "Add or edit pages after scanning".
8. Hit "Preview" to see your document before scanning. If you wish to scan only part of the document, drag your cursor on the preview window to create a selection box around that area. When you are ready, hit "Scan".
9. After the scan is complete, a pop-up window will appear. 
10. Put the second sheet of your document (the next page) on the bed of the scanner.  Click "Add" to scan additional pages, continuing through the subsequent sheets of your book/magazine/brochure.
    Image Added
    
11. After you scan your last page, select "Save" to save your scanned pages.
12. Locate your saved pdf file in the saved folder. 
13. Make the PDF searchable (Note that this scanned document is an image pdf file, not searchable yet.)
    1.  In order to make it searchable, open the file with Adobe Acrobat
    2. Scan & OCR
    3. Recognize Text in this file
    4. Language - English
    5. Recognize Text
       Image Added
14. Save your PDF file.