Hi everyone,
I'm looking for advice on how to reduce the file size of my scanned books while maintaining good quality. From my experience, Google Drive cannot view PDFs larger than 100 MB, so I need to ensure my files are under this limit.
I've been using ScanTailor, but I've encountered some issues:
- When I use photo color mode, it produces TIFF RAW files over 4GB.
- Black and white mode works well if the scanned document is good, but converting color documents to black and white sometimes ruins them.
- For some scanned documents, I must use color mode at 600 dpi and sometimes downsize to 150 dpi, but this results in a loss of quality for color documents.
- I convert the scanned documents with Adobe Acrobat Pro, which takes a long time, especially for OCR processing.
- Sometimes, ScanTailor Advanced 2019.8.16 crashes when I use color mode with 600 dpi.
Does anyone have tips or recommended tools and settings for achieving this balance? I'm particularly interested in any techniques or software that can help optimize scanned PDFs without significantly compromising the quality of the text and images.