best way to organize scanned pages

I'm wanting to scan several pages from a book that is really old and has pictures on a fair amount of the pages. I have a scanner and know all that, but what is the best way (and maybe cheapest way) to scan them all and have them in sequential order? Something like a pdf file would be nice where I could jump from page to page in order, but I don't have the software to create pdf files like that. So my question is, What is the best way to organize these pages so viewing them is as streamlined as possible?

Thanks!

 

The best way?

PDF......

Or you can download Microsoft's XPS essentials pack and save the scans as XPS.

XPS is the Microsoft version of PDF. And it's free.

 

- cutepdf is a free program you can use to create pdf documents.
- If you use microsoft office 2007 it too can create pdf documents. You might need to search for the microsoft addon that lets you do this.
- if want to merge two or more pdf documents into one SilkOdessy pdf Merge is a free program that can do this.

I've used all of the above methods. They all work well.

 

Our scanner can directly scan to a pdf document - older HP one... 5 or so years old...

 

Scanner? In 2010?

Use a camera on a tripod: scan takes 1/60 second.

Use the pdf makers above or simply make slideshow.

Just a thought from a photog.

 

My scanner also arranges them in order, and numbers them too.
But...strangly it can't scan anything which is circled (or better said 'squared') by a black lined box. I had to scan some goverment documents yesterday but no matter what I did, It wouldnt scan the text in the suare >.>

 

Quite a good idea you also get better resolution much quicker.
(Yes, you can scan at over 100dpi - its slow as hell though...)

Drawback:
Potentially ever so slight distortion due to the lense
Needs more HDD space. (larger files)

Strange indeed... check the settings if there is something strange to avoid black boxes.

 

The .TIF picture format has extensions for multi-page scanning too. I believe .TIF offers better compression than .PDF. IrfanView handles them nicely.

 

The closer the camera is to the page, the more distortion. Scanners don't have that problem

 

Yes and no....

It goes two ways.

The lense is also important - after you have a good lense - the distance.

 

You might also want to utilize Evernote. I *believe* it will index PDF files and is straightforward to use. Depending upon the total size of your documents, you might want to disable syncing and just use Dropbox/Mozy for backup, as to save you the subscription costs of Evernote for premium plans. Good luck!

 

I gotta check out cutePDF.