Importing a PDFs, when converted to TIF the images are 7-8 times higher in file size then the original file size. Any way to configure compression?
Help!
TIFF is a lossless format, so while it is compressed, it does so without losing any fidelity. PDFs are a container that can have plain text, formatted text, and compressed images in any number of formats. Without knowing what is inside of your PDF, it's hard to guess what is happening.
A common scenario is that when generating pages from a PDF with text, the contents are rasterized to TIFF pages. This will always consume more storage than text on it's own.
Depending on the contents of the PDFs, one way to mitigate the issue is to generate monochrome pages.
If you provide more details about the PDFs you are importing, and the before/after sizes, we might be able to help more.
Ali,
We have struggled with that issue since we implemented laserfiche 5 years ago.
Do you need to preserve color in your PDF? If you don't checking the monochrome box that was mentioned above is great solution. It will lower the document size but it also lower the quality of any color images to black and white.
If you need to keep color pages in your PDF document and want to convert to TIFF. I would recommend using PSICapture by PSIGEN.
It's a third party tool that works really good at converting PDF to Tiff with color pages and keeping the file size small.
Thanks guys!
I would recommend that whatever solution you use, that you make sure that there aren't any applicable local laws. Some localities have specific things to say about compression and DPI.
I hope it works out!