Have you tried ghostscript? It should be available for any *nix-like OS or
Windows [1].

Cheers,
Bridger
[1] http://www.ghostscript.com/download/

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Paul Butler (pbutler3)
<[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> Have you looked into Irfanview's [ww.irfanview.com] batch conversion
> settings and plugins?  Might be something there that is useful.
> Cheers, Paul
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> Paul R Butler
> Assistant Systems Librarian
> Simpson Library
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Nathan Tallman
> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 10:29 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [CODE4LIB] PDF Compression
>
> Can anyone recommend some good PDF compression software? Preferable
> open-source or low-cost. We're scanning archival collections and the PDFs
> can be quite large for a single folder. The folder may be thick or thin,
> and contain a mix of text and images. We've fiddled with various Acrobat
> settings for getting the file size down, but we haven't found a good
> balance between quality and file size. (Plus, these need to be OCR'ed; so
> far we've been doing that in Acrobat.)
>
> We were looking at LuraTech PDF Compressor, but the cost for an enterprise
> license is pretty high. It did do an excellent job though.
>
> Thanks,
> Nathan
>