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June 21, 2009
New Training Movies Posted - Search and Touchup Text
If you haven't tried clicking on the HUGE movie button on my full blog page, then you are missing out on some free Acrobat training.
These short movies play back via Adobe Flash and are only one to five minutes in length.
Today, I posted four new training movies:
- Find and Search: Understanding the differences
Simple Find commands and full Search offer different capabilities. See how to search multiple PDF files
- Creating a Full-Text Index for faster searching
Learn how to create a ful-text index to search across many PDFs in multiple directories
- Accelerating Search in a PDF Portfolio for faster searching
Create a full-text index which "lives" inside a PDF Portfolio to accelerate search - Making Edits to PDFs with the Touchup Text Tool
Change text on both PDF Normal (e.g. converted from an electronic source) and Scanned PDF document
If you are interested, you can learn a bit about my process for creating the movies using Adobe Captivate in my full article.
June 11, 2009
Can I change the number of digits when I Bates Number?
Acrobat 8 introduced Bates Numbering and and additional features and performance enhancements were made in Acrobat 9 Pro.
| See my Bates Numbering Movie! My Acrobat Training Movie Page has over 30 how-to movies such as the Bates Numbering Movie. |
Last week, I got this e-mail message from a paralegal:
I don't like Adobe's mandatory 6 digit bate stamp. Why did they do that? I like to bate stamp with just single digits. It is more simple that way.
You might be aware that the custom is to Bates stamp discovery documents using six digits including leading zeros. However, that might not meet the needs of everyone. Some folks like to use four digits and others, like my most recent emailer above, wanted to use just one.
You might assume that Acrobat requires you to use a minimum of six digits for Bates numbering.
In fact, if when you Bates stamp (Advanced—> Document Processing Bates Numbering—> Add . . . ) and insert a Bates stamp you cannot change the number of leading digits through the standard dialog:
Actually, let me take that back. You can try, but Acrobat will give you an error:
Fortunately, there is an easy workaround that allows you to Bates Number with only one digit. Read on to learn how. Along the way, you will also learn all you need to use Bates Numbering in Acrobat..
June 3, 2009
Scanner Review: Fujitsu fi-6140
One of the nice things about working for Adobe is that occasionally nice things show up on my doorstep.
That was the case a few months ago when a Fujitsu fi-6140 scanner arrived. My test of this scanner was delayed as I waited for my new laptop to arrive . . . apologies!
Fujitsu fi-6140 scanner on my messy desk.
Fujitsu offers an entire line of scanners from inexpensive personal scanners to heavy-duty departmental scanners. Many of their scanner offerings include Adobe Acrobat, too!
| Need to learn about scanning and OCR in Acrobat 9? Check out my movie page to see how to use these features. |
The Fujitsu fi-6140 is department-level scanner that is rated to scan 60, double-sided black and white pages per minute at 200 dpi and 40, double-sided color pages at 300 dpi. This kind of performance is about three times what you'll find in a personal scanner.
The price is also about three times more:
For a small firm that doesn't do a lot of scanning, the Fujitsu fi-6140 might be overkill. However, if you have a lot of documents to scan, or difficult document types, this scanner has many benefits:
- TWAIN Interface
Unlike the ScanSnap personal scanners, Fujitsu's business scanners can interface to any software such as Acrobat. (You can't scan inside of Acrobat using the ScanSnap, which is an annoyance). - Scanning Options
The fi-6140 TWAIN driver offers sophisticated imaging tools such as edge cleanup, hole removal, document numbering, etc. You can even have the scanner automatically scan the front of pages at one resolution and the back in another. - Paper Handling
The fi-6140 capably handles thick card stock and other tough to scan documents. I scanned a stack of credit cards and it worked fine! - Speed
The fi-6140 is fast, really fast. If you scan large stacks of paper frequently, you will benefit the most. - Software Bundle
In addition to Acrobat, the fi-6140 includes full versions of professional-level software such as Kofax VRS Professional and Fujitsu ScandAll Pro. - Long Duty Cycle
In the rest of the article, you can read more about my overall impression of the Fujitsu fi-6140. In this review, I'll cover how to use this scanner with Acrobat and access some extended functions.
Spoiler alert: I liked it! Read on . . .