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
- Compress PDF data
- Select color mode
- Reduce image DPI
- GhostScript
$> ./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.