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Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates?

From Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates?
Date 2016-04-28 21:12 -0700
Message-ID <D3482D22.71505%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> (permalink)
References <ab850272-0ca9-4c74-89fe-3783989baaea@googlegroups.com>

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On 4/28/16, 8:50 PM, in article
ab850272-0ca9-4c74-89fe-3783989baaea@googlegroups.com, "Takuya Saitoh"
<taka0038@gmail.com> wrote:

> With Adobe Acrobat running under Windoze or Mac really easy, it shrinks the
> files automatically looking pretty good.

Even the "lowly" Preview has a "Reduce File Size" feature which is not
robust but works fairly well.

When Owl worked on HIS challenge about downloading recipes as PDFs, it
turned out his PDFs were MUCH larger than the ones produced by OS X, and on
OS X the text was selectable and with a simple contextual menu gave you
options for looking up terms, word counts, or whatever else you added to the
text services of OS X.

Here is an example: <https://youtu.be/_J4PppWroWY>

> In Linux?  It's looking also pretty
> good after scanning e.g. with XSane but the file size is sooo HUGE, even in
> 300 dpi A4 page...  No easy way to shrink/size optimize this in the FOSS
> buzzword, couldn't the geeks focus on something useful and practical instead
> of changing the look of the GUIs and messing with functionality all the time?

There are a number of solutions... I have not used these, but found them
with a quick search:

<https://techwalla.com/content/reduce-pdf-file-size-linux>
<http://www.alfredklomp.com/programming/shrinkpdf>
<http://wp.me/pdZH8-f>

-- 
* OS X / Linux: What is a file?     <http://youtu.be/_dMbXGLW9PI>
* Mint MATE Trash, Panel, Menu:     <http://youtu.be/C0y74FIf7uE>
* Mint KDE working with folders:    <http://youtu.be/7C9nvniOoE0>
* Mint KDE creating files:          <http://youtu.be/N7-fZJaJUv8>
* Mint KDE help:                    <http://youtu.be/3ikizUd3sa8>
* Mint KDE general navigation:      <http://youtu.be/t9y14yZtQuI>
* Mint KDE bugs or Easter eggs?     <http://youtu.be/CU-whJQvtfA>
* Easy on OS X / Hard on Linux:     <http://youtu.be/D3BPWANQoIk>
* OS / Word Processor Comparison:   <http://youtu.be/w6Qcl-w7s5c>

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How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? Takuya Saitoh <taka0038@gmail.com> - 2016-04-28 20:50 -0700
  Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-04-28 21:12 -0700
  Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? 7 <7@enemygadgets.com> - 2016-04-29 07:42 +0000
    Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? Takuya Saitoh <taka0038@gmail.com> - 2016-04-29 01:00 -0700
      Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? 7 <7@enemygadgets.com> - 2016-04-29 09:03 +0000
    Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? Fabian Russell <fb@zen.info> - 2016-04-29 22:49 +0000
      Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? Fabian Russell <fb@zen.info> - 2016-04-29 23:33 +0000
        Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? 7 <7@enemygadgets.com> - 2016-04-30 13:58 +0000
      Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-04-29 19:43 -0400
        Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? meat <meat.stretcher@linuxmail.org> - 2016-04-29 23:48 +0000
          Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? Fabian Russell <fb@zen.info> - 2016-04-30 00:04 +0000
            Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-04-29 18:25 -0700
              Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? Fabian Russell <fb@zen.info> - 2016-04-30 07:53 +0000
                Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-04-30 09:43 -0700
                Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-04-30 18:52 +0200
                Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2016-04-30 10:16 -0700
                Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? "Dr. John Grubor" <grubor@grubor.invalid> - 2016-04-30 17:20 +0000
                Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2016-04-30 10:33 -0700
              Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2016-04-30 07:19 -0400
                Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? meat <meat.stretcher@linuxmail.org> - 2016-04-30 13:55 +0000
              Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? meat <meat.stretcher@linuxmail.org> - 2016-04-30 13:46 +0000
                Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-04-30 07:20 -0700
          Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-04-29 20:07 -0400
            Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? meat <meat.stretcher@linuxmail.org> - 2016-04-30 00:35 +0000
          Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2016-04-29 20:25 -0400
            Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2016-04-30 02:31 +0200
            Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? meat <meat.stretcher@linuxmail.org> - 2016-04-30 00:47 +0000
              Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2016-04-30 07:17 -0400
                Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? meat <meat.stretcher@linuxmail.org> - 2016-04-30 13:54 +0000
                Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-04-30 09:44 -0700
                Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2016-04-30 13:59 -0400
                Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? meat <meat.stretcher@linuxmail.org> - 2016-04-30 20:11 +0000
                Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? Fabian Russell <fb@zen.info> - 2016-04-30 16:43 +0000
                Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? meat <meat.stretcher@linuxmail.org> - 2016-04-30 16:44 +0000
                Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-04-30 12:56 -0400
                Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? Fabian Russell <fb@zen.info> - 2016-04-30 17:28 +0000
                Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? Fabian Russell <fb@zen.info> - 2016-04-30 18:12 +0000
          Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? Fabian Russell <fb@zen.info> - 2016-04-30 08:13 +0000
  Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? Fabian Russell <fb@zen.info> - 2016-04-29 08:56 +0000
    Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? 7 <7@enemygadgets.com> - 2016-04-29 09:07 +0000
    Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-04-29 10:05 -0400
      Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? Me Sham <osirus47@yahoo.com> - 2016-04-29 07:21 -0700
        Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-04-29 11:21 -0400
  Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? "Dr. John Grubor" <grubor@grubor.invalid> - 2016-04-29 11:42 +0000
    Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? Takuya Saitoh <taka0038@gmail.com> - 2016-04-29 08:10 -0700
      Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? "Dr. John Grubor" <grubor@grubor.invalid> - 2016-04-30 01:24 +0000
        Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? Takuya Saitoh <taka0038@gmail.com> - 2016-04-29 19:00 -0700
          Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? "Dr. John Grubor" <grubor@grubor.invalid> - 2016-04-30 03:26 +0000
            Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2016-04-30 07:27 -0400
              Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? "Dr. John Grubor" <grubor@grubor.invalid> - 2016-04-30 13:12 +0000
                Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? Takuya Saitoh <taka0038@gmail.com> - 2016-04-30 06:28 -0700
                Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2016-04-30 09:52 -0400
                Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? "Dr. John Grubor" <grubor@grubor.invalid> - 2016-04-30 15:16 +0000
                Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2016-04-30 13:56 -0400
                Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? "Dr. John Grubor" <grubor@grubor.invalid> - 2016-04-30 15:15 +0000
                Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? Takuya Saitoh <taka0038@gmail.com> - 2016-04-30 08:43 -0700
                Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? "Dr. John Grubor" <grubor@grubor.invalid> - 2016-04-30 16:25 +0000
                Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? meat <meat.stretcher@linuxmail.org> - 2016-04-30 16:35 +0000
                Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2016-04-30 14:01 -0400
                Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? meat <meat.stretcher@linuxmail.org> - 2016-04-30 20:17 +0000
                Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2016-04-30 17:13 -0400
                Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? meat <meat.stretcher@linuxmail.org> - 2016-05-01 04:11 +0000
                Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2016-05-01 06:51 -0400
                Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? meat <meat.stretcher@linuxmail.org> - 2016-05-01 13:05 +0000
                Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2016-05-01 11:33 -0400
                Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? Lloyd Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> - 2016-05-01 11:43 -0500
                Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-05-01 14:52 -0400
                Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2016-05-01 12:14 -0700
                Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? meat <meat.stretcher@linuxmail.org> - 2016-05-01 22:23 +0000
                Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-05-02 11:15 -0400
                Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2016-05-01 12:44 -0700
                Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-04-30 12:50 -0400
                Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? "Dr. John Grubor" <grubor@grubor.invalid> - 2016-04-30 17:10 +0000
                Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? meat <meat.stretcher@linuxmail.org> - 2016-04-30 19:54 +0000
                Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? Tattoo Vampire <sitting@this.computer> - 2016-04-30 16:30 -0400
                Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-04-30 19:34 -0400
                Re: How do yo optimize scanned PDF, Linux advocates? Tattoo Vampire <sitting@this.computer> - 2016-04-30 20:52 -0400

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