"J. Roeleveld" writes:

> On February 22, 2017 11:12:01 PM GMT+01:00, k...@aspodata.se wrote:
>>Thelma:
>>> I have scaned pdf file (88-page) 23MB in size (downloaded this way).
>>> Trying to reduce the size of the file I [...]
>>
>>Why don't you extract the images with pdfimages from the pdf and
>>compress them with xv or convert (imagemagic) and maybe gimp can 
>>comress them also. Don't know how to get them back into a pdf though.
>>
>>Regards,
>>/Karl Hammar
>
> If I remember correctly, you can merge images into a PDF using convert:
> # convert image1.jpg image2.jpg .... output.pdf
>
> I use this technique when I find some images need turning or resorting after 
> scanning bigger documents.

When going through that route, it is my experience that img2pdf does a
much better job than imagemagick because it deals with the .jpg
compression losslessly.

-- 
Alberto


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