Scan to file type allows you to specify which file type your document will be saved as. These file types include but are not limited to JPEG's, PNG,s, GIF's and PDF's. Each file type has its advantages and disadvantages which include document quality and file size. Scan to PDF for text based documents.
Scanning to PDF offers several advantages including OCR (Optical Character Recognition) which makes the text in your scanned document searchable. PDF has become the global standard for storing static documents.