What is the difference between scanning to JPEG and scanning to PDF?

[Sgt_Strider]

I have some documents that I have to scan. I bought the Canon Canoscan 9000F a couple of years ago. I never even opened it until yesterday. I also have a copy of Adobe Acrobat X that came with my other document scanner. So what is the difference between scanning to JPEG and scanning to PDF? I am leaning on scanning to JPEG because I want to also insert some of these documents into Microsoft OneNote. If I scan straight to PDF, then I'm not sure how to extract the document from the PDF and then insert it into OneNote later.

I plan to scan at 300dpi and if I scan to JPEG, at least I can import it into both Acrobat X and OneNote and use the programs to OCR the JPEGs. I can do that right? I think the OCR quality and speed will be better either Acrobat X or OneNote over ScanGear and MP Navigator EX (Canon's software). I think scanning to JPEG will take up more time, but might make my workflow easier given what I plan to do.

Any comments on how I should proceed with this?

 

[Evil_SPanKY]

Not sure specifically, but I know that Acrobat X can easily convert JPEGs into PDFs (it can even do several/hundreds of files as a batch conversion operation).

FILE -> CREATE -> PDFs from File...

It (Acrobat) also has a built-in OCR function, so you would be good to go there too.

TOOLS -> RECOGNIZE TEXT

So you can easily go form JPGs to PDFs as needed with what you already have, so that may be the most universal way to approach this IMO.