Thank you everyone for the replies and ideas. It looks like Ghostscript is
going to be my best bet... on to testing!

Thanks,
Nathan

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Nathan Tallman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 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
>