PDFill PDF Scanner:  Scan to PDF for Filling

The Adobe Portable Document Format, or PDF, is a commonplace secure document form utilized by many businesses. As the move toward a paperless office continues, scanning paper documents into PDF files will become an essential skill.

PDFill PDF Editor provides you with an easy way to convert your paper documents to digital form for easier storage and access. Insert the paper into your scanner, press the scan button inside PDFill, the document will be automatically converted directly into PDF format. It even works with Document Feeder scanners providing a very quick and easy way to convert large documents. Then you can fill it using computer:

• Use PDFill PDF Filler to insert new formatted text, check, image, URL, whiteout, highlight or blank PDF page inside the PDF page.

• Use PDFill PDF Form Maker to convert the paper form into an interactive PDF form by adding From Fields (Text Field, Check Box, Radio Button, Combo Box, List Box or Push Button).

• Use PDFill PDF Drawing to add Line, Arrow, Rectangle, Circle, Arc, Pie, Basic Shapes and Curve; You can select line color, width, style, Fill, arrow style in the way similar to Microsoft Office.

• Use PDFill PDF Comment to add Stamp, Text Box, Highlight, Sticky Notes, Popup, File Attachment, Video, Line, Arrow, Rectangle, Oval, Polyline, Polygon, Cloud and Pencil hand-drawing.

• Use PDFill PDF Ink to write, draw, mark or highlight PDF documents with pen input or mouse.

• Save the filled PDF locally with Options to add add Description, Encrypt/Decrypt, View preferences, Presentation Effect and Rotate/Crop. Save editing now and Resume editing later.

• Print the filling data back to the original document by deleting the scanned image.  See Step 4.

Benefits:

• You can send the converted and edited PDF file by e-mail, and PDFill will automatically create the attachment for you.  You can distribute this PDF to many recipients, regardless of physical location. This is  the best alternative to faxing documents - cheaper, faster and better quality than a fax.

• You can Run a paperless office management:  Instead of trawling through a big physical filing cabinet, you can simply open the appropriate PDF file in your computer folder where you can quick and easy access thousand of scanned pages on your PC.

• You can make electronic backups of your important paper documents and letters

• You can display the interactive documents on the Internet.

Here is an example of the steps to scan paper into PDF:

Step 1: Insert the paper into your scanner and click the Scanner Button inside PDFill

Directly click PDF Scanner Button in the Standard Toolbar.

or

Choose Menu File > Import Image from Scanner > Select Source.  After Selecting source, File > Import Image from Scanner > Acquire

The select source dialog comes up:

The default method for scanning is TWAIN method.  If you have problem to scan, please check the option to Scan using WIA Method.

Step 2: A scanning preview window will come up. You can adjust the scanning area by dragging the box.

Click "Accept" to continue. You will see a progress bar like this:

Step 3: Change New Blank Page Properties for the Scanner

You can turn off this dialog next time by setting the following two options:

Set this page as Default and Hide the window in the future

If  Set, a new blank PDF page will use this saved page size. This property dialog will not show up.

Always Scan into a new Blank Page

If set, the scanned image will appear into a new blank page. If not set, the scanned image will appear into the current PDF in an open PDF document.

For the Auto Feed Scanner to scan multiple pages into PDFill, it will be convenient if you set these two options.

Step 4: Do Editing inside PDFill  and Save all into a new PDF

Note: The inserted page is just an image. You can highlight, resize, edit or delete like PDFill PDF Filler's Image Tool object. If you delete this image after filling, only the filling data is left onto the PDF document, then you can print the filling data back to the original scanned document. You may need to adjust the scanned image' size so that it is the same size as the original document. It is best to save a copy of project file (PFL) before you delete this image.

• Use PDFill PDF Filler to insert new formatted text, check, image, URL, whiteout, highlight or blank PDF page inside the PDF page.

• Use PDFill PDF Form Maker to convert the paper form into an interactive PDF form by adding From Fields (Text Field, Check Box, Radio Button, Combo Box, List Box or Push Button).

• Use PDFill PDF Drawing to add Line, Arrow, Rectangle, Circle, Arc, Pie, Basic Shapes and Curve; You can select line color, width, style, Fill, arrow style in the way similar to Microsoft Office.

• Use PDFill PDF Comment to add Stamp, Text Box, Highlight, Sticky Notes, Popup, File Attachment, Video, Line, Arrow, Rectangle, Oval, Polyline, Polygon, Cloud and Pencil hand-drawing.

• Use PDFill PDF Ink to write, draw, mark or highlight PDF documents with pen input or mouse.

• Save the filled PDF locally with Options to add add Description, Encrypt/Decrypt, View preferences, Presentation Effect and Rotate/Crop. Save editing now and Resume editing later.
   

If you have scanner "Server Busy" or other problem,   Please use the following options:

• Update your scanner's driver from its manufacturer website, especially for the 64 bit.
• Make sure that the Windows Scanner (Microsoft Paint) and your scanner's software can work.
• Then, you can update PDFill and use WIA Method: PDFill PDF Editor: File Menu =>Import Image from Scanner => Scan using WIA; PDFill PDF Tools: Scan into Image or PDF => Scanning Method => WIA
• You can also use the Windows Scanner to scan your paper into images, then, insert them into PDFill PDF Editor.

Since PDFill doesn't have OCR function, if you want to reduce the PDF file size,  try scanning at a lower resolution, and in black-and-white instead of color. That will shrink the file size considerably.

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