Scanning Directly to a PDF File

You can scan multiple document pages, photos, film images, or slides and save them as one PDF file on your computer using the scanner’s

Scan to PDF button.

Place the first page of your original document (or your photos, film, or slides) on the scanner. For instructions, see Placing Documents or Photos or Placing Film or Slides.

Press the

Scan to PDF button on the scanner. You see the Scan to PDF window.

If you need to change any of the current PDF settings, click the Settings button. You see the Scan to PDF Settings window.

Select the settings that match your document and click Close. You return to the Scan to PDF window.

For more information about the Scan to PDF settings, click Help in the Scan to PDF Settings window.

If you are scanning multiple pages, replace the first page on the document table with the second page and click Scan again. Repeat this step for each page in your document.

When you are finished, click Finish. Your document is saved as a PDF file in Pictures or My Pictures.

Starting a Scan With Epson Scan

You can scan multiple document pages, photos, film images, or slides and save them as one PDF file on your computer using Epson Scan.

Place the first page of your original. See one of these sections for instructions.

Start Epson Scan. See one of these sections for instructions.

When the Epson Scan window appears, set the scan mode to Home Mode or Professional Mode. Then select the basic settings for the type of original(s) you are scanning and select the destination setting for the way you will use your image(s). See one of these sections for instructions.

To change the scan mode, see Changing the Scan Mode for documents and photos or Changing the Scan Mode for film and slides.

Click the Preview button to preview your image(s), then select your scan area. See one of these sections for instructions.

When you are finished selecting settings and previewing, click the Scan button.

The File Save Settings window appears. Select PDF as the Type setting. The current Paper Size, Orientation, Margin, and Compression Level settings are displayed below it.

If you need to change any of the current PDF settings, click the Options button. You see the Epson PDF Plug-in Settings window.

Select the settings that match your document and click OK. You return to the File Save Settings window.

When you are finished selecting file settings, click OK. Epson Scan scans your page and displays this window.

If you are only scanning one document page, or you don’t need to edit your pages, click Save File and go to step 12.

If you are scanning multiple pages, click Add Page, replace the first page on the document table with the second page, and click Scan. Repeat this step for each page in your document. When you are finished, click Edit Page and go to step 10.

You see the Editing Page window displaying thumbnail images of each scanned page.

The Editing Page window displays thumbnails of each scanned page. You can use the tools below the main window to select, rotate, reorder, and delete pages in your document. Click the Help button for details.

If you want to include all the document pages in your PDF file as they currently look, go to step 11.

If you want to rotate or delete pages, click the pages or use the

odd pages,

even pages, or

all pages icon to select the pages. Then click the

left or

right rotate icon to rotate them or the

delete icon to delete them.

The

delete icon is not available when all document pages are selected.

When you have finished editing your document pages, click OK. Your document is saved as a PDF file in Pictures or My Pictures and you return to the Epson Scan window.

Scanning Directly to a PDF File

Starting a Scan With the Scan to PDF Button

Starting a Scan With Epson Scan