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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 > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > Paul R Butler > Assistant Systems Librarian > Simpson Library > University of Mary Washington > 1801 College Avenue > Fredericksburg, VA 22401 > 540.654.1756 > libraries.umw.edu > > Sent from the mighty Dell Vostro 230. > > > -----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 >