Canoscan 5600f Scan a document

[voyager_663rd]

I am scanning three pages.  The first page scans as a PDF (like it's supposed to) but the second page scans as an image.  A third page then scans as a PDF.

Any ideas why this happens?  I have to open the image in another program, save it as a PDF and continue.

[ebiggs1]

Is there an image on the 2nd page?  Try setting it PDF and not using auto scan.

[voyager_663rd]

It is an an image. But as I said, I did not change any settings between 1st scan and 3rd scan. Yet 1st and 3rd page scanned as PDF's and #2 document scanned as an IMG.

[ebiggs1]

If you are using "auto scan", letting the scanner decide what you want, it will do that if it sees an image.  The scanner knows the difference between text and a picture.

[voyager_663rd · Accepted solution]

Although I don't have the originals nor rhe copies now, there were (on occasion, a pic on the primarily text page. I assume then the sw "couldn't decide" pic or text and picked wrong ;). Your solution (go manual) will work. Thanks for steering me in the right direction.