Asking for advice regarding scanning a textbook

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Sun Jul 15 20:51:00 UTC 2007


On 15/07/07, Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks, Dotan. I have set the resolution at 300 dpi, but I get 1 MB
> > per page. Can one reduce the size of the pdf file?
>
> Sorry, I was wrong. Actually, I get 35 KB per page, after saving it to a file.
>
> Paul
>

35 kb? That's tiny. You're not saving as jpg, are you? Go for png, but
if that's too large then look at gif. About 100-150 kb sounds about
right in my opinion, based upon faxes that I've received as pngs.

Dotan Cohen

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