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Compressing Document Size

Updated November 27, 2018

asked on October 3, 2017 • Show version history

I need to email a 40 page .tif and it's too large for my email settings. I've looking around for a solution, but many are years old. I'm wondering if anyone has a solution? We're on 10.2.1.

The pages are generated from pdf, as I need to redact information on a tif document. so it's not a scanner setting that is making it so huge.

EDIT: I did this for future page generation (https://support.laserfiche.com/kb/1012570/laserfiche-scanning-8-may-create-color-image-files-with-larger-than-expected-file-sizes ), but is there a solution for currently scanned records?

EDIT: So I finally found what worked, which was essentially changing the quality level to 15%. But this doens't make sense, because the original pdf is now better quality than the .tif'd re-pdf'd version. There must be a better method:

ALSO - when I tried emailing a pdf, the compression didn't happen. Why not?
Is there a way to autocompress into a .zip file if all email attachments are over a certain limit?

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replied on October 5, 2017 • Show version history

Issue 1 - producing a smaller PDF file from LF imaged document

For downloading as a PDF file, you can also try setting the following option. This option produces a smaller PDF file from imaged documents, preserves readability of text, but severely decreases non-text picture quality in order to achieve more compression.

Note that this option is a new functionality (since 10.2) and its algorithm is still being researched and improved. For now, please remember to turn off the option after use, as this option is only suitable to some documents. If you are not satisfied with the image quality from this option, please let us know and provide sample images so that we can further our algorithm research. (If the image cannot be posted publicly, please open a support case and provide the image to support.)

Issue 2 - controlling file size increases or image format changes upon creating (importing) new documents from PDF

I will let others summarize the ways image format can be changed when new documents are created.

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replied on October 6, 2017

I tried this option, and it reduced the file from 125MB to 3.5! (which is less the original 5). The image quality isn't ideal (see below, the original is on the left, the compressed on the right), but this is certainly an option when the text is central.

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replied on November 27, 2018

Hello,

What if the customer is on an older version of the LF Client (9.2). Is there an option for Compression, in some other format.

Thanks,

Jeff Curtis

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replied on October 3, 2017

I found this article, but I'm not sure how this address different input scenarios (e.g., email, drag and drop, etc.) https://answers.laserfiche.com/questions/94297/File-size-grows-when-tiff-image-is-moved-from-windows-folder-into-Laserfiche-forlder#95633

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