Reducing size of scanned pages

[Tim]

On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 22:28 -0500, R. G. Newbury wrote:
> I am scanning old files and papers for archiving (and shredding the 
> paper). In the past, under OS/2, I could convert the original scans
> from 24 bit color to one bit black and white scans by converting to
> dcx format (and back to jpg). This reduced the image file from 1MB to
> abojut 55-60KB.
> 
> Can anyone suggest a similar sort of conversion methodology which I
> can use on Fedora? I have no idea what programs are available which
> might be capable of these sorts of conversions. 

What software are you using to scan with?  You should be able to pick a
resolution and line art mode to do that sort of thing in one go.

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