Re: Apple IIe Parallel card manual

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

John wrote:

>One of the guys told me to use the program in Adobe that "strip out or
>cleans out" the unneeded parts and makes the file smaller after it has been
>completely scanned.  It reduces its size considerably.  I forget the name of
>it since I am not at my computer.

I think you're thinking of Adobe Distiller.

In my experience, it reduces the size of a .pdf considerably, but nowhere
near as much as converting raw page images into text with an OCR program.
Of course, if the document is a mixture of text and illustrations, then some
clever OCR is required to preserve the original appearance.

OCR can typically reduce the document size by a factor of ten or more
(as well as recreating a clean original).

-michael

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