You're reading from Adobe Acrobat Ninja A productivity guide with tips and proven techniques for business professionals using Adobe Acrobat

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803248172

Length 348 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Adobe Acrobat

Concepts

Document Preparation

Author (1):

Urszula Witherell

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Understanding Different Adobe Acrobat Versions and Services

2. Chapter 2: Creating and Enhancing PDF Files from Scans FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Converting Microsoft Office Files to Adobe PDF Using PDFMaker

4. Chapter 4: Modifying and Editing PDF Files

5. Chapter 5: Remediation for Accessibility in PDF Publications

6. Chapter 6: Using Acrobat in a Document Review Process

7. Chapter 7: Creating and Modifying PDF Forms

8. Chapter 8: Adding Digital Signatures and Security Settings

9. Chapter 9: Designing Multimedia Presentations

10. Chapter 10: Integration with Adobe InDesign

11. Chapter 11: Using Acrobat for Professional Publishing

12. Chapter 12: Privacy, Bates Numbering, and Other Specialized Features for A Law Office

13. Chapter 13: Acrobat Pro Tools, Shortcuts, References, and Mac Notes

14. Index

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Creating and Enhancing PDF Files from Scans

Many publications produced on paper are being moved to an electronic format. Old contracts, books that were written long before computers existed, and typed letters are being scanned and made available online. This process has been taking place for quite some time. Reading archives from a library in a small town in Eastern Europe, for example, can lead to a great discovery. Likely, the chosen format for posting this information is PDF. The process of transferring these documents to the internet begins with scanning.

Scanning is also at the heart of communicating by fax. Faxes depend on bitmap images to transfer document pages. The most common graphic file format utilized by faxes is .tiff, which is a bitmap. This method of communication, though, is no longer sufficient. Readers need to search text, make corrections, and extract text and images for other projects. Therefore, enhancing scans is an important feature of Acrobat Pro.

This chapter will detail the process of scanning paper pages and converting them to PDF. We will also discuss how images from tablets or smartphones are converted to PDF and enhanced and optimized in Acrobat.

We’ll cover the following topics in this chapter: