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2007-03-21 20:17:16
ika212
Registered: Mar 21 2007
Posts: 2

I need to scan some larger older word documents to be put on the web. I am also instructed to use OCR. However, the file size of the pdf created after the scan is huge. They don't even open when posted on the web.
What can i do to compress the files?

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 8, Windows
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2007-03-22 10:15:37
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tedpadova
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Registered: Dec 31 2005
Posts: 848
You can find many answers to your question by reading a recent article from Donna Baker posted right here on Acrobat Users:

[url=http://www.acrobatusers.com/tutorials/2007/skinny_on_scanning_touchup/]http://www.acrobatusers.com/tutorials/2007/skinny_on_scanning_touchup/[/url]

Look over the article and if you still have questions, come back to Ask the Expert.

ted

The author of numerous books on Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator and the Adobe Creative Suite, and an international speaker on Adobe Acrobat, Ted Padova is a well-known PDF guru.

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