- Position the document on your scanner.
- On the File menu, click Scan New Document.
- In the Scan New Document dialog box, select the options you want.
The default preset is Black and white, which is the preferred preset for optical character recognition (OCR).
- Click the Scan button.
If you selected the Original is double sided check box, the Microsoft Office Document Scanning dialog box reappears after each page is scanned.
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To save the file, click Done after the last page is scanned.
Move pages into a new document
- Open the source document you want to move pages from.
- In the thumbnail pane, select the first page you want to move.
- Do one of the following:
- To select a series of pages, hold down the SHIFT key and click the last thumbnail in the range.
- To select pages not in a series, hold down the CTRL key and click additional thumbnails.
- On the Page menu, click Move Pages to New File.
- On the File menu, click Save.
- Open the source document you want to save pages from.
- In the thumbnail pane, select the first page you want to save to a new document.
- Do one of the following:
- To select a series of pages, hold down the SHIFT key and click the last thumbnail in the range.
- To select pages not in a series, hold down the CTRL key and click additional thumbnails.
- On the Page menu, click Save Pages As.
- In the Save As dialog box, select the options you want.
- Click Save.
Note When you save pages to a new document, the source file remains open. To view or make changes to the new document, open the new document you just saved.