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I have some manuals I would like to download in a printable format (PDF/ADOBE). Any help would be appreciated.
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What format are they in currently?
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paper - obviously need to be scanned. Then?
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If your printer has a scanner, then you're set. Do you have a desktop program for the printer? You can save the scanned document to your computer (or to an external drive first if you do not have a desktop program for the printer/scanner) The printer (or program) should give you the option of picking the file type it is saved as, if not just change the file type later.
With my printer, I choose the Scan function, scan the first page, then it asks me if I have additional pages, I finish the remaining pages, then it saves them all as one document.
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Most of the modern All-in-One Printer/Fax/Scanner from HP will scan the pages and turn them into a pdf automatically and save them to a flash drive if you inserted one into the printer, as you may imagine, you have to unbind the book so you can use the feeder, otherwise you have to manually scan each page one at a time.
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I appreciate the answers - what I am trying to get to - I have seen adobe manuals where you can print the even pages or odd pages - have an index to go the section in the manual directly. What I believe you all are telling me - that is can continue a scan and create a contiguous file - that can be printed only?
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If you want to build and index and other things, you will need to have the adobe acrobat application (not just the reader) it will allow you to take any pdf file do the things you describe. The scanners and such will typically just make one file with all the pages in one pdf file. Typically the documents you mentioned are authored from a word processor file and then converted to adobe, they are not typically scanned in. If you scan the manual, you loose certain abilities such as the ability to edit the text and depending on the quality of the scans, even the ability to search for a word in the file.
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You could scan as mentioned, save as a PDF, and then upload the file to this site - http://www.onlineocr.net/ (http://www.onlineocr.net/)
From there the file can be converted to a Word doc which will allow you to create the hyperlinks to specific documents. Once that is complete, download and install a program called CutePDF. That will allow you to virtually print the Word document as a PDF. I'm not 100%, but I think the hyperlinks will stay in place. Do a dry run with one page first before wasting too much time if it doesn't work.
Kevin