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Anybody have any thoughts on the best way to scan transcripts to produce a file that is a) fairly clear text and b) smaller file size (we're trying to produce pdfs ultimately)? Basically, we ran into this last year for graduate student admissions, where the stuff we scanned turned out to be significantly larger than what everyone else in the college produced (although at least it looked pretty decent :) ). Since then, I've played with settings, and at least for fairly normal documents, like letters and forms, I can get pretty decent quality by scanning them as black and white images, with a reasonable compression setting in Acrobat. However, when it comes to transcripts, these are printed on paper that is designed to be harder to copy in the first place, and I'm finding I can get either a small file size with text that would cause eye strain after a while, or a much larger file (as in multiple megs) that's pretty decent to read. Neither of these is necessarily a great alternative, so I thought I'd see if anyone else has run into this and what their solution is. Thanks, Gary