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Say you just scanned a multi-page PDF, and it's like 200MB in size, for 10 pages. Obviously, 200MB for 10 pages is ridiculous, and usually you can't email that to your banker or whomever needs it. This scenario happens often when scanning in PDF's in OSX as multi-page PDF's. OSX scans your images as TIFF or some other lossless format, and even a…
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How to compress a PDF using automator and preview (no quartz filters)

  1. Download this.
    • It's a zip file containing the automator workflow and automator app for converting a PDF to JPG's.
  2. Open up pdf-to-images.app
  3. Select your PDF
  4. your multi-page pdf will be converted to 50% quality, 300DPI images onto your desktop.
  5. open up the first image in Preview
  6. Export it as a PDF
  7. open up this exported PDF
  8. select all other rendered JPG images and drag them into the Preview sidebar of the new PDF.
  9. You should now have a multi-page Preview document of your exported JPG scans. Save it.
  10. Profit.
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