Using the Paper Capture Online Service

Adobe’s Paper Capture feature in Acrobat 6 is designed for individual or small office use. For the needs of larger businesses, Adobe provides their Create Adobe PDF Online service that enables you convert any type of business document to PDF. Company reports, printed archival materials, spreadsheets, calendars, and even entire Web sites are just a few of the types of documents that you can convert in order to take advantage of the universal file-sharing aspects of PDF. The service is subscription based (U.S. $9.99 per month or about U.S. $99 per year), but Adobe offers the service on a trial basis that allows you to create five PDF files free of charge. You can go to Adobe’s Web site and see what all the excitement is about by typing this URL into your favorite browser’s Address text box:
http://createpdf.adobe.com
After you’ve subscribed to the service, you can then upload as many scanned files (of no more than 50 pages in length) as you want and process them online with Paper Capture as follows:

1. Use your Web browser to go to createpdf.adobe.com, sign in by entering your username and password in the Adobe ID and Password text boxes, and then click the Login button. The Create Adobe PDF page appears.
2. Click the Choose a File graphic link to open the Create Adobe PDF Online - Select a File dialog box. Note that you can also click the Submit a URL link in order to capture a Web page. A page appears where you specify which file to process.
3. Click the Browse button to locate the desired file on your hard drive, click Choose, and then click the Continue button on Adobe’s Select a File dialog box to open the Conversion Settings window . Note that you can click the Supported File Types link to view a list of File types supported by the Create Adobe PDF Online service.
4. Click the Optimization Settings drop-down list and choose either Web (the default), eBook, Screen, Print, or Press as the output conversion setting for your file.
5. Click the PDF Compatibility drop-down list to select either Acrobat 3.0 (PDF 1.2) (the default), Acrobat 4.0 (PDF 1.3), or Acrobat 5.0 (PDF 1.4) as the output compatibility setting for your file.
6. Choose a level of security for the converted PDF by clicking the Security Options drop-down list. The default is No Security. You have the option of choosing two other basic levels of security: No Printing (40 bit) or No Printing (128 bit). You can further customize security settings for your converted PDF by clicking the Adobe Acrobat Security link above the Security Options drop-down list.
7. Select the desired method for having the processed file returned to you in the Delivery Method drop-down list. Your choices are No E-Mail, Download from Conversion History (which lets you archive PDF files at Adobe and download them as necessary from your Conversion History list), Wait for PDF Conversion in Browser, E-Mail Me a Link to My New PDF, or E-Mail Me My New PDF as an Attachment.
8. Click the Create PDF button at the bottom of the window to upload your file and have it processed according to your wishes.

Create Adobe PDF Online lets you create and save your own conversion settings, just as you would in Acrobat 6. To do so, click the Preferences link under the heading Set Options in the Conversion Settings window and select the new settings using the drop-down lists provided for various conversion settings in the Preferences window. Then click the OK button, enter a descriptive name for the new settings in the dialog box that appears, and click OK. Your new conversion settings will appear in the Optimization Settings drop-down list in the Conversion Settings window.
When the Create Adobe Acrobat Online service receives your uploaded document, it displays a Confirmation screen that gives you an identification number and that indicates how the processed file will be delivered to you. Depending upon your settings, the service then delivers the processed PDF file to you either by displaying it in your Web browser (assuming that you use one that supports the plug-in for displaying PDF files), in an e-mail message as a link or a file attachment, or as a link in your Conversion History list.