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I don have electronic versions of old working papers that Id like to include in ScholarWorks. Is it okay to scan the printed page to a PDF file?

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I don have electronic versions of old working papers that Id like to include in ScholarWorks. Is it okay to scan the printed page to a PDF file?

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Yes, scanning printed pages is a great way to create PDF files for inclusion in ScholarWorks. There are two ways to scan a page: using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) or scanning the page as an image. Making OCR scans requires careful proofreading and loses the original formatting of the documents. However, image scans cannot be searched. The best solution takes advantage of both of these methods. Many software applications allow for the OCR capture of image scans. When documents are scanned this way, users see the image scan but search the full-text of the document. This is the preferred method for scanning documents for ScholarWorks.