http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ doPDF does PDF. For FREE. en Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:02:00 +0000 http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/want-smaller-sized-pdf-files#post-74 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:09:22 +0000 Softland 74@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>Hi, well the reason the PDF is larger when you do a scan and after that converting it to doPDF is because a scan basically sends an image to doPDF (a large image) and doPDF cannot compress it.</p> <p>To create smaller PDF files you should try performing OCR on the scan, and after that converting it to doPDF.<br /> Another solution would be to change the resolution of the image your scanner creates, for instance if your scanner creates high-res tiff files you should lower the dpi to 72 for instance (so that the resulting scanned image has lower dpi).</p> <p>Anyway, the thing is that doPDF compresses text more, so if in a document you manage to have as much text as possible, the compression would be higher. Your broker might create the PDF files directly from a financial application (not by scanning them first), so that might be an explanation why he creates 30kb pdf files. </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/want-smaller-sized-pdf-files#post-71 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:33:49 +0000 rdmayo 71@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>I have downloaded pdf files of a 3-6 page financial statement from my broker and these are approximately 30-60K in size, very readable, and printable. When I try to scan in a paper statement (same number of pages) for a period not included in the on-line archive,<br /> and create a PDF file,the file size is multiple megabytes in size.<br /> I have tried lowering resolution but the results were less than satisfactory.<br /> How does one create a 30K PDF file by scanning a 3-6 page document..<br /> RDMAYO </p>