Configure Presets for Scanning With Adobe Acrobat X

If you have a scanner attached to your system, Acrobat X Standard provides the capability to scan documents directly into PDF files. To do so, take the following steps:

1. Open Adobe Acrobat.
2. Click on File.
3. Select Create.
4. Select PDF from Scanner.
5. You can then choose whether you want to scan in color or black and white or have the software "Autodetect Color Mode".

Acrobat has some preset configurations from which you can choose. The choices available to you are as follows:

• Autodetect Color Mode
• Black & White Document
• Grayscale Document
• Color Document
• Color Image

If you wish to adjust the settings for any of those preset scan configuration optsions for certain scans you perform regularly, follow the above steps, but instead of picking the color mode at the last step above, choose Configure Presets.

That will open a Configure Presets window where you can adjust settings for a particular color mode choice. You can change the resolution, the quality of scanned images (higher quality equates to larger file size), whether you are prompted for scanning more pages into one PDF document, etc. E.g., if you wanted to have 300 DPI, the highest available image quality, have Acrobat prompt you for scanning more pages, but not run Optical Character Recognition (OCR), you would select settings as shown below:

When you have adjusted the settings appropriately, click on Save and then Close.

Reference:

1. Scan a paper document to PDF
   Date: February 3, 2012

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Dealing with the bad parameter message when attempting to scan with Acrobat

When I attempted to use Acrobat X Standard to scan a document from an HP LaserJet 3052 scanner, I received a "bad parameter" error message. I've posted the steps here for dealing with the issue.

I needed to use the Adobe Acrobat X software for scanning rather than the Windows® Fax and Scan utility that came with Microsoft Windows 7 because that software doesn't provide the capability to scan multiple pages into one file nor even provide the capability to save the scanned image to a PDF file. It also doesn't allow one to create presets where you select a preset configuration, e.g., color and 200 dpi, for certain documents you may scan regularly, whereas Adobe Acrobat X does provide that capability.

I was able to scan documents using Adobe Acrobat X and the HP LaserJet 3052 printer/scanner/copier, however, unlike with the Windows® Fax and Scan utility, they always looked garbled when scanned on the Windows 7 system.

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