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+1 for ghostscript. Used it for excatly the urpose you are talking about and found it very useful. It's copious options list<http://ghostscript.com/doc/current/Ps2pdf.htm#Options>mean that the learning curve is a little stiff, but it will let you do pretty much anything you want to your pdfs. Chad. On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Bridger Dyson-Smith <[log in to unmask] > wrote: > 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 > > >