Adobe Acrobat file sizes

[Homerboy]

Say you had to scan documents that were 30+ pages... and still have them clearly legible, how small do you think you could get the resulting single .pdf? Under 2MB? (no color) What dpi would you use?

 

[Cheetah8799]

If you scan and then have the OCR software to convert to text, then I think the PDF will be small. If you scan and are placing image files into the PDF, then it's going to be huge...

Also, having a PDF that is readable via a computer is fine, but what happens when you print those low-quality docs? I suspect they will be pretty poor quality.

If I was doing this, I'd scan with as high of quality as I could stand to wait for. Then use graphics editing software to downgrade it later until I found a size that would work for me.

 

[Homerboy]

these are just court documents that will be filed electronically. No OCR needed or wanted for that matter. They will be done in volume too so no "post-production" work can really be done. Just a simpl click-n-scan and save.