Available in FlexiPDF Professional

If your computer has access to a scanner, you can scan new pages into the currently open PDF.

  1. Choose Pages > Insert From Scanner.
  2. Choose your scanner from the Device list of available scanners.
  3. If your device is an automated document scanner capable of scanning many pages unattended, change Source to Automatic Document Feeder.
  4. Choose the Placement – where the new pages should be placed in the current document.
  5. To convert the words in the scanned document into text rather than just a photograph of text, make sure Recognise Text (OCR) is checked. If you are scanning a photograph with no text, do not check this option and skip the remaining steps.
  6. Choose the language of the text in the scanned pages. This helps FlexiPDF recognise words correctly.
  7. Choose the PDF Style you require:
    • Choose Editable Text if you want to be able to edit the text in your scanned page.
      This will give a document with no graphics or photos, just text that can be edited as normal.
    • Choose Searchable Image if you are interested in preserving the appearance of the scanned pages. The recognised text will be available for searching, but not for editing.
      If there are mistakes made by the recognition process which could causes searches to be inaccurate, you can correct these using the OCR corrections facility.