Color Documents & Size

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replied on February 7, 2014

Scanning defaults to compressing images as TIFF LZW which will give you a better quality image, but with the drawback of a higher image size. You can set Scanning to use JPEG compression instead by following the steps in this KB article. You can set the attribute detailed in that KB Article for the current user or for the Everyone group.

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replied on February 7, 2014 • Show version history

Check local listings. Our State archives laws specify that, for documents to which retention rules apply, we use lossless compression. That precludes us from using JPEG.

One thing you can do is check the software that came with your scanners. Our Fujitsus come with image cleanup software that can do color detection, smoothing, and other processes that can reduce the overhead of the lossless compression a small amount.

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replied on February 7, 2014

Good point. Thank you; I'll be sure to check.

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replied on November 12, 2015

I noticed that changing the attribute does reduce the scan from 240MB to 100MB but when the document is exported as a PDF it stays as 100MB. Before the attribute was changed and the size of the image in Laserfiche was 240MB exporting as a PDF with a compression of 80 reduced it to 27MB. Is there a way to reduce the size of the document when scanning into Laserfiche as well as reducing the size of the exported PDF?

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