Last few months, I have been scanning a lot of documents. Also converting word to pdf, merging pdf files, splitting them etc. In this process, I have found few good programs for this task.
I have an HP Deskjet F4288 All-in-One scanner-printer-copier at home. If you scan a document, by default, it starts an HP utility for managing the scan, which is buggy, big-time and tedious to use too. So, began my search for the ultimate tool. Enter Softi Scan to PDF. Though it is a 30-day trial, if you uninstall it and install again, it restarts the 30 day trial..;)..so gr8. This app has a simple scan button. It has settings where you can select the scan document size, the compression ratio that is needed. This helps when you want the scanned pdf file size to be very small and the quality of scan does not bother you..esp. when upload sites limit the file size. If it is a multi-file pdf, just keep pressing "scan" after each document and it keeps appending the pages and when you are done with all pages, click on "Save PDF". Simple.
Some of my documents to be scanned were of the A3 size and could not be scanned at home since my scanner supports A4 only. Got it scanned from a print/xerox shop and the size of the files that he created were enormous. 16MB for 10 pages. I tried opening the file and printing it again using CutePDF. I thought it will compress the file in the process. No change. Then, me and google started another search and we found "Bullzip PDF". Excellent utility. Similar to CutePDF. But with this, when I tried printing the 16MB file to PDF again, it reduced the size to 5MB. That was great compression and without any visible loss of quality. Now it has also replaced CutePDF as my word-to-PDF converter. I fondly call it "Bull#$%@ PDF"..hehe.
I had all my documents separately scanned and converted to pdf. Now came the requirement of merging/splitting different PDF files together/apart as per requirement. Again...google to the rescue with freely available "PDFSAM (PDF split and merge)". Though it calls itself "Split and merge", it does much more. The feature I love the most is "Visual reorder". You can see the thumbnail view of all pages within a document, delete certain pages if you wish, rotate specific pages, change the order of pages according to their importance and after you are done, just save it as another PDF file.
Let me know if you have heard of any good ones.....
I have an HP Deskjet F4288 All-in-One scanner-printer-copier at home. If you scan a document, by default, it starts an HP utility for managing the scan, which is buggy, big-time and tedious to use too. So, began my search for the ultimate tool. Enter Softi Scan to PDF. Though it is a 30-day trial, if you uninstall it and install again, it restarts the 30 day trial..;)..so gr8. This app has a simple scan button. It has settings where you can select the scan document size, the compression ratio that is needed. This helps when you want the scanned pdf file size to be very small and the quality of scan does not bother you..esp. when upload sites limit the file size. If it is a multi-file pdf, just keep pressing "scan" after each document and it keeps appending the pages and when you are done with all pages, click on "Save PDF". Simple.
Some of my documents to be scanned were of the A3 size and could not be scanned at home since my scanner supports A4 only. Got it scanned from a print/xerox shop and the size of the files that he created were enormous. 16MB for 10 pages. I tried opening the file and printing it again using CutePDF. I thought it will compress the file in the process. No change. Then, me and google started another search and we found "Bullzip PDF". Excellent utility. Similar to CutePDF. But with this, when I tried printing the 16MB file to PDF again, it reduced the size to 5MB. That was great compression and without any visible loss of quality. Now it has also replaced CutePDF as my word-to-PDF converter. I fondly call it "Bull#$%@ PDF"..hehe.
I had all my documents separately scanned and converted to pdf. Now came the requirement of merging/splitting different PDF files together/apart as per requirement. Again...google to the rescue with freely available "PDFSAM (PDF split and merge)". Though it calls itself "Split and merge", it does much more. The feature I love the most is "Visual reorder". You can see the thumbnail view of all pages within a document, delete certain pages if you wish, rotate specific pages, change the order of pages according to their importance and after you are done, just save it as another PDF file.
Let me know if you have heard of any good ones.....
