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I need to know how to reduce the size of scanned files. For example; I scanned some tax records into my computer. Then I used a pdf producer to turn them into pdf documents. Then I want to email them but they are like 5 and 8 megabytes. I need to know if there is a better way or how can I compress the files to kilobytes size? I have this free trial of winzip but it does'nt seem to reduce the size if at all. Please help

Usually your scanning interface program will have an option for scanning documents. This feature makes the file size a lot smaller in most cases.

Hey thanks

What I was doing was, after scanning the documents I was printing them with a pdf printer driver and the one I was using called bullzip pdf producer was not capable of compressing files. I found another printer driver called pdfcreator that has file compression capability. Both are free and the new one is alot better. I was able to reduce scanned documents from 9 megabytes to 2 megabytes. Now if I can add that to your advice maybe I can get them even smaller, because if you don't have high speed it can make it very difficult to email. I'm just trying to find the best way to move information over the web for free without using a fax.

Yeh I adde your advice to what I learned and I was able to reduce 9 megabytes to 1.44 megabytes and 6 megabytes to 566 kilobytes. Good enough clarity and much faster to email.

Glad to be of service!