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Let me first announce that I really screwed up. I most likely could have had the tools to do this for free during the demo period, but I screwed up. I installed Adobe Acrobat XI Pro 26 days ago, and didn't do anything with it until recently, leaving me until Tuesday the 28th where the demo period will expire, leaving me with a bunch of bad looking PDFs. The person typing this is a dumb rear end. Here's what I am doing in a nutshell. My grandfather served in WWII extensively. He did a lot of duties, and I only know a little of what he did. To save on drama, he died in a POW camp. I am named after him. I'm proud to carry the name. I also have his flag that was used during his burial when the Japanese repatriated his ashes four years later. He received full military honors. My grandmother gave me his flag before she died. It only has 48 stars and is in immaculate condition. My project is to piece together his life and try to find out what he did, where did he fight, what happened to him, all kinds of information. I have pieced together some with the help from a guy from Goons in Platoons. I received handful of documents about my grandfather from relatives, and I have scanned all them in using Acrobat XI Pro. However, I am brand new to creating PDFs. I made individual PDFs of each document. Some documents were too long for the scanner, so I just slid it down and scanned again, in hopes that I can line them up, or maybe just break them off neatly and make two pages of from them. Everything seems to have scanned in well. I tinkered with the DPI on some of the more brittle delicate documents and such that had a lot of small details. I don't know where to go from here with acrobat to make sure my final DPF file(s) are as optimal as they should be, and look as good as they could look. I have everything from simple typed 8.5 x 11 sheets of paper, small pictures, long marriage licences, to brittle yellowed 4"x4" papers. I'm sure I can figure out the basics, such as making all the PDFs into one single PDF, moving stuff around, adding text, etc. I used OCR while scanning, but it's not like I will be searching these anyway. The documents scanned came out looking fine. I zoomed way in on one of the old pictures I have that is about 2" x 3", and could see detail that I hadn't noticed with my naked eye. Most of the documents (the paper ones) were different sizes as well. My plea to you is to decree what have I already done wrong, what cardinal rules should I follow, and any other advice for scanning in historic documents of varying quality to be preserved and packaging this PDF up nice and tidy so I can use it to talk with officials to try to gain more information. I have leads, I want to have paper to back up my story. There are a lot of general tutorials that I found in the flotsam of the Internet that I have experimented with and followed - however, I value the advice from a goon who may have experience in doing what I am doing. Be sure to include an insult to my neglect in wasting my trial period. Advice would be greatly appreciated. Unique and cleverly barbed insults are to be expected.
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Forsooth, it is thirteen documents. Well, files now I suppose. Files of documents. Bah, I am defeated.
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Oct 25, 2014 09:44
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PassiveSentence posted:You could put all your scanned media in a Word document and then convert to a PDF using a PDF converter program. When inserting your scanned media (presumably as pictures), make sure the margins are 0" on all sides for the page layout of the document and change text wrapping to "through". I believe Word 2007 and newer have the ability to save as PDF so you can probably skip finding a converter. I hadn't thought about that, it's worth a shot. The goal of the project is to just preserve the documents so that they can be scrutinized by zooming in, shouldn't be hard to accomplish. Word I can
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