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by bala

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I have a Lexmark 4550 all-in-one. I often need to scan documents mostly multiple pages and save them as reasonably small sized PDF files. Is there a SW that can do this? For info: the SW that came with the Lexmark was not so good - it could scan only single pages and save, no good for me. The Lexmark printer is good. What SW must I download so I can save the files as PDF. At present I am using the MS Document Scanning. This is fine but I have to save as TIF &/or GIF files.Thanks

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by bala

Thanks. Printing to PDF is one option. When you print to PDF the file size is the same as the GIF and TIF files and they are large. When you scan to pdf the file is much much smaller in size. I hope someone has an answer on How to Scan from any scanner and save it as PDF file directly

by thumbsup2

I believe, without having the ability to scan directly to PDF built into the scanners software, you're going to need to purchase Adobe Acrobat to gain that ability. It's either that, or print to PDF as previously mentioned.

by kenone

your device should be able to do that, read the manual? I know heresy. Softi Software has some inexpensive scan to PDF stuff. I have 0 experience with their stuff.

by sgt_shultz

you can get cute pdf which is free. to use it, you 'print' to the pdf writer it installs. it's pretty good and allows different paper sizes. i get those kinds of programs from www.download.com

by bala

Thanks for all the attention from all of you. The SW that came with the Printer (ABBY) supported only single page scans. Each scanned page had to be saved as a separate file. Lexmark could not help with solution. ABBY also did not reply. For: Print to PDF, I use Primo PDF which works great. This is one of the best. Since I have a lot of papers to scan, I need this scan to pdf ability. Most HP All-in-one are supported by their driver package to have scan to pdf as option... Buying a HP all-in-one is another solution...

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