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I need to compress a scanned PDF file from 1.5 MB to under 600 KB. I've tried a number of Ghostscript solutions given on other threads but they seem to compress it all the way down to just 2.2 KB and all the content is lost. Can someone provide a solution?

Eric Carvalho
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Rkarnik
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You may experiment with the convert input.pdf -resample 85% output.pdf command example.

Reference: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/convert.php#usage

Depending on the quality of the original, the results may not be very good.

To Do
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It would be helpful to see what options you tried with Ghostscript because normally that should work better than ImageMagick.

You can also try pdfjam. To install

sudo apt-get install pdfjam

Then try variants of these commands

pdfjam --scale 0.5 your.pdf

or try the --papersize flag. Run pdfjam --help for a full list of options.

philshem
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