Don't worry about it.  If you need to scan, scan.  NIH is saying that a
lot of things will hamper, impede, etc.  I try to be careful and obliging,
but haven't heard any of these terrible things actually happpening.

CH

> I am working on a NIH submission via grants.gov.  The SF424 states the
> following:
>
> "It is recommended that, as much as possible, applicants avoid scanning
> text documents to produce the required PDFs. Instead, NIH recommends
> producing the documents electronically using text or word-processing
> software and then converting documents to PDF. Scanning paper documents,
> without the proper Optical Character Recognition (OCR) process, will
> hamper automated processing of your application for NIH analysis and
> reporting."
>
> Unfortunately, the documents I need to scan contain signatures which are
> lost unless I scan directly into a PDF.  Has anyone encountered this
> problem, and if so do you have any suggestions?
>
> Thanks for your assistance.
>
> Anne Braden
>
> --
> Anne Blankenship Braden
> Pre-Award Officer
> Research and Sponsored Programs
> Montclair State University
> Room 309 College Hall
> Montclair, NJ 07043
> Phone: (973) 655-5367
> Fax: (973) 655-5150
> http://www.montclair.edu/pages/orsp/
>
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