compressPDF

Interactive bash script to reduce the file size of a .pdf file. It works best for scanned documents and documents created with pdfLaTeX.

Observed compression results:

• Scans: 10% – 60% reduced file size
• pdfLaTeX: 30% – 80% reduced file size

Features

• Compress PDF data
• Select color mode
• Reduce image DPI

Dependencies

• GhostScript

Usage

$> ./compressPDF INPUT.pdf [OUTPUT.pdf]

If no output file name is given it will default to output.pdf. If you leave all prompts blank, the script will compress the PDF without any quality loss.