If you are sending such for screen viewing, 75 to 100 DPI is just dandy. That's what you might get from a FAX. It could cut the filesize to about a 1/4 or less of default size. Also, consider black/white or greyscale. Similar to the fax (but better quality) you'll see some shrink.
Since you didn't reveal the quality requirement, that's all I'll offer.
Bob
How do I make the PDF attachment of scanned documents be smaller in size?
OS = WinXP Home Edition, 2002, Service Pack 2
Scanner = Sharp AL-1655CS All-In-One
Process = Open Control Panel, select Scanners & Cameras, select Sharp AL-1655CS, select Wizard to Acquire Picture & Scan, select jpg format, select document feeder (as opposed to flatbed).
Software used for email format = Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Standard
I feed my docs into the document feeder and they are scanned as jpg's (I could also use TIFF or BMP or PNG formats).
When scanned, all pages are in jpg format (e.g., 30 pages listed Doc. 001, 002, 003, --- 030).
I then "Select All" and "Combine In Adobe Acrobat".
Then I save giving the file a name.
Then I right click and Send to Email Recepient.
That's where my trouble begins.
The file will be extremely large, e.g., 30 pg's will be perhaps 20 Mg.
Others who use pdf's of scanned doc's to email will get much smaller file sizes, which contain many more pg's. One person got 117 scanned pdf pages (of docs) and the file size of his email was 6.81 Mg.
What am I doing wrong? How can I make my email file sizes smaller?
P.S., others who do this don't seem to be using WinZip or other 3rd party Zip programs.
I would appreciate your suggestions or advice.
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