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URGENT - I need to shrink PDF file size

by Robert Mangan
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I really need help despeartely with this.

I have created a PDF file by scanning in 30 pages of a Word document. The pdf is 18Mb in size.

I need to reduce it in size as much as I can.

Can anyone help me out with this?

Thanks
Robert
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  • Profile picture of the author Robert Mangan
    Just to clarify things a lot more...

    I have filled in a .odt document that is 30 pages long. It size is 112Kb. If I do a 'save as' and save as a PDF, the file size is 631Kb, which is fine.

    However in the .odt there are 3 pages that require my signature.

    So, I thought that I would just print off the 30 pages of the .odt, sign the 3 pages, and then scan them back using my Canon scanner to a pdf file.

    Problem is, that the scanned document is now a whopping 18Mb.

    There is, I'm sure, a more intelligent way I can print off just the 3 pages from the .odt document, sign them and somehow put them back in the .odt and then do a 'save as' to a pdf.

    I just don't know how to do it.


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  • Profile picture of the author Karen Barr
    OK, you need to print off the relevant pages, and scan ONLY those pages in (in fact for preference only scan your signature section.)

    Now re-open your document, and go to insert>image and place the scanned pages in the document at the relevant points.

    When you export this as a PDF, you should now have 27 text pages and 2 which contain an image.

    Hope this makes sense.
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  • Profile picture of the author Elle Davies
    Have you tried this....?

    How to Shrink PDF File Size
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  • Profile picture of the author rufaswan
    Let's just say the PDF created from odt file is A.pdf and the scanned PDF is B.pdf. Notice you can't copy and paste any text from B.pdf like you can with A.pdf?

    Why? That's because after you scan, the whole document become image files. Every single page is an image. That's the cause of sudden increase of the file size.

    If you have the original odt file, just do as what Karen suggested above - just scan your signature and insert them to the odt file. Or at least, just scan only those three pages and replace them on A.pdf.

    That should decrease the file size to somewhat acceptable range.

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  • Profile picture of the author Robert Mangan
    Thanks to everyone and their great advice.

    What I ended up doing was to write my signature on a blank page, scan it and then upload it to Photoshop.

    I'm not a Photoshop expert at all but I re-size the jpg to be around the size of my normal signature (if you know what I mean).

    Then I edited the odt file and where there were lines that wanted my signature, I did an insert above the 'dashed line' with the jpg of my signature file.

    Anyhow it kind of works so I'll go with that.

    Karen, I'm still not quite sure how to implement what you say but I'll try printing off those three pages from the odt file and sign them. Then I guess I scan them in as pdf files? But, it's the next step I'm still not quite sure on how to do.

    I will keep trying.

    Thanks guys,

    Robert
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