Hi, I am a new Tablet PC user and a new scanner

[jacquelinepassey]

Hi, I am a new Tablet PC user and a new scanner user. I am using my Tablet PC for school and would like to scan all my books, handouts, reading packets, etc. so I can have everything on my Tablet.

The same time I purchased my tablet I also purchased a HP Photosmart 2710 all-in-one. I finally got it set up and have been trying to scan. I can scan to .PDF, but the files are HUGE! 5.2 megs for only 7 pages. When I download .PDFs from the internet they are more like 200 KB for 20 pages. How can I scan my books, handouts, etc. to smaller files? I can scan to .PDF, Word, or HTML, but the Word and HTML formats have errors in them. Only the .PDF format saves without any weird errors on the page.

I am a total clueless newbie to all this. Please advise, thanks!

[kookiecan]

This subject has it all for the newbie students, thanks to Chaimberbell: http://tabletpcbuzz.com/forum/topic....Terms=students

[chaimberbell]

Hy Jacqueline ^_^ Well, just to clarify, it's not the PDF's fault, it's the pictures being put in the PDF's which are probably scanned at 300dpi, right? Each picture is major high definition and around 500-800KBs each (look at one page and see how far you can zoom in with crystal clear words). With the files you're downloading and viewing, they were probably created with a word processor and then saved to PDF, which is much different than putting pictures in for each page. When you're just saving text, notice how it's small (think Word files) because it's just (gee it's been a while since comp sci...) 8bits a letter? That's what's inserted in the PDF which is why the PDF is small. The only way to get your scans to save as a smaller file is to either insert smaller pictures (scan at 200dpi or use a photo editor to size down a little) or OCR the document and save only the text created to the PDF. I think Acrobat has some type of optimizer, but Acrobat is out of my league and I'm not even sure if that would help at all.

btw, kookie, haha, I read your post and was like "what? where did I help out with PDF's?" lol, had me wondering, since I've steered clear of PDF until this Christmas ^_^

[kookiecan]

No, nothing was meant to be funny. The link is to your roundup of student related topics which minimage thought should be made a sticky. That topic you started had endless material on PDF'en textbooks.

[kookiecan]

I guess to guide you in a more direct path, jacquelinepassey try this link to a similar question: http://www.tabletpcbuzz.com/forum/to...TOPIC_ID=18643

[Trev]

Scanning in black and white at 300 dpi will work for most documents. If you have color textbooks, yes you'll need color. At 300dpi b&w I got a 300 page book into 30 megs without OCR. If I did the OCR it would go down considerably.

Frank, long time no see. What happened to your sig?

[ChrisParis]

Is there a way to scan to Journal?

I've been using Journal almost exclusively these days, precisely because PDF's are so big and Adobe takes forever to start up. But I do so using "print to Journal." Haven't tried scanning to it.

[JCP777]

Chris,

Yes, scans can be "Printed" using Journal Note Writer. The Microsoft Scanner and Camera Wizard does not give the option of printing. I have an HP ScanJet 6200. The HP software, PrecisionScanPro, does allow printing directly from a scan.

Thanks for asking the question. I had not scanned anything into my little M up to this point and had not installed the scanner software. Being able to scan to Journal is so cool.

Hope this helps.