Scan a section of page

[c***@verizon.net]

Adobe Acrobat XI Standard

How can I scan a section of a page, not the whole page? If that is not possible, can I crop the page after it is scanned so that I am left with just the part that I need? I did that by taking the scanned document to Photoshop and cropping it there, but I assume there is a way to do it in Acrobat.

Thank you.
Caryl

[mick]

Post by c***@verizon.net
Adobe Acrobat XI Standard
How can I scan a section of a page, not the whole page? If that is not
possible, can I crop the page after it is scanned so that I am left with just
the part that I need? I did that by taking the scanned document to Photoshop
and cropping it there, but I assume there is a way to do it in Acrobat.
Thank you.
Caryl

If you use your scanners software to scan the document the device
usually scans the page then allows you to crop before saving the
output. If you use Adobe to scan the document then you do not get that
choice, you have to crop after the document has been saved.

This is the help for cropping in Adobe Acrobat
http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/crop-pdf-pages.html

[c***@verizon.net]

Post by mick

Post by c***@verizon.net
Adobe Acrobat XI Standard
How can I scan a section of a page, not the whole page? If that is not
possible, can I crop the page after it is scanned so that I am left with just
the part that I need? I did that by taking the scanned document to Photoshop
and cropping it there, but I assume there is a way to do it in Acrobat.
Thank you.
Caryl

If you use your scanners software to scan the document the device
usually scans the page then allows you to crop before saving the
output. If you use Adobe to scan the document then you do not get that
choice, you have to crop after the document has been saved.
This is the help for cropping in Adobe Acrobat
http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/crop-pdf-pages.html
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mick

Thank you for your response. I was able to scan the page in Adobe and following your instructions, crop it, but I was not able to crop it with the printer/scanner software. I figured out how to scan it directly from the scanner but did not see how it allowed me to crop it before saving it to the computer. But I am happy that I can crop it at least using one method.

Caryl

[David H. Lipman]

Post by c***@verizon.net
Adobe Acrobat XI Standard
How can I scan a section of a page, not the whole page? If that is not
possible, can I
crop the page after it is scanned so that I am left with just the part
that I need? I did
that by taking the scanned document to Photoshop and cropping it there,
but I assume there
is a way to do it in Acrobat.
Thank you.
Caryl

All scanners come with TWAIN compliant middleware. When one chooses a
custom scan via Acrobat one pulls up the GUI interface to that middleware.
You can then choose everything from colour or greayscale, DPI, orientation,
cropping, etc.

The following is from Acrobat 9.x but it is relatively the same in v11.x

Create --> PDF --> from scanner --> custom scan

When the "Custom Scan" options comes up, choose your scanner. All TWAIN
compliant devices will show in the list. Once you have chose the scanner,
you'll see "Options" to is right. Under User Interface you want to choose
"Show Scanner's Native Interface".

Screen Capture:
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PhotoShop is also TWAIN compliant so one can scan the object within
PhotoShop itself.