When I am scanning a document how do I get it to save as a PDF or a DOC?

.PNG stands for "Portable Network Graphics". Sounds like the sender may have scanned the document, and sent the scanned document to you? Scans will come out as either .png, .jpg, or .pdf formats.

If the file is a .png, you won't be able to edit in MS Word.

Another thing to check - Make sure when you are working on a Word Document, you are saving it as a .doc file.

• Open MS Word Document
• Do your editing
• Click on the "Fille" button, and then select "save as" option
• In the window that appears, next to the "save as type" wording click on the down triangle to see different formats to save. Select ".doc"

Bottom line... tell whomever is sending the emails with attachments, to send you the MS Word file, not a scanned file.

You need to have HP Solution Center Software installed on your computer to scan to pdf.
Open up HP Solution Center program.
Click on scan document.
Another window open with Document to PDF File highlighted in blue
Click on SCAN box.

if im not wrong you can save the documents, in lexmark as .doc, .jpeg, .jpg, and also as an acrobat document....
for me works with an canon multifunction mx300
i only select save as an pdf document of many pages.... and done...
hope it helps you....

Well once you have digitized all the documents can they all be converted to PDF?
THen all you need to do is to make sure the titles are in numeric order as page 1 - whatever
Adobe PDF acrobat professional lets you place them all into one doc.
On the left open page options at the top of this menu you can insert after of befor all the rest of the docs just open the lead doc and then add pages to thea you will build a book

Configure the scan to file to save as PDF file

I need the scanned documents be saved as pdf in HP scanjet 5590

Scanners only see millions of dots. Unless it has software to convert a picture into a document, all documents are seen by scanners as pictures made of of millions of dots. Software is available to convert it to a Microsoft Doc format but it is very expensive. 

you can try it by using the scanner option on the control panel. If you are using windows operating system, go on start menu, select control panel and double click scanners & cameras. Double click the scanner online and start scanning the documents. Save it in the format you want but it is usually default as jpeg.

scanned documents usually saved as .pdf file if you run the scan option directly on the printer. By pressing the SCAN button the printer. So do not use this option if you do not want the documents to be saved as pdf files.

OCR to Microsoft word ,then
You can find a software tranfer like DOC word file to PDF file.

http://www.doc2pdf.net/
http://www.pdfonline.com/

I would first make sure that you have latest driver update. MS Word is very particular about how it reads things back in. I would try saving the scan as a text file or PDF instead and then open them in Word. Hope this helps!
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