Selecting PDF as a file format

If you select PDF as your file format, the PDF Setup dialog box will be displayed.

  1. Select either Single Page or Multi-Page as the way to group your image files in output. Every input (scanned) image file will be a separate output file.

  • If you select Single Page, every image you scan is a separate image file in output. Therefore, if you scan a page, you will have two separate image files in output (one for the front and one for the back). If you are scanning dual stream, you will have four image files in output.

  • If you select Multi-Page, the For each drop-down list becomes available.

  • For each: Page – every image for every page scanned becomes one file.  When you open the file, there will be two images, one for the front and one for the back. If you are scanning dual stream, you will have four images

  • For each: Document – every page scanned into one document will become the contents of one file. There may be several (or many) images in one file.

  • For each: Batch – all images scanned into the batch will become one output file. There may be many images in the output file.

  1. Select one or more Additional PDF formats: Fast Web View, PDF BookMark, Long PDF or PDF-MRC.

  • Select Fast Web View if you want to configure the PDF file for faster viewing if the files are large and downloaded from the web site.

  • Select PDF BookMark when you want to bookmark each document in the PDF file. Group by Multi-Page for each Batch must be selected. Specify the value of each document bookmark using the PDF BookMark tab found on the Index tab. System and/or Index values may be used to produce unique bookmark values.

  • Select Long PDF if you expect your images to be longer than 500 cm (200 inches). This selection will impact performance. Long PDF is not available for  PDF-MRC file formats.

  • If you select PDF-MRC as one of your additional PDF formats, select the desired Image quality: JBIG2/Group4, Draft, Good or Better.

In general, JBIG2 will produce smaller file sizes at lower quality than Group4. JBIG2-Better, Group4-Draft, Group4-Good and Group4-Better are lossless.

  • If no selections are made, your PDF format will be PDF.

  1. If you want to encrypt the PDF file, enter a password that will be required to open and view the PDF file in the Password field. If you do not want to encrypt the file, leave the Password field blank.

  1. When finished, click OK.