I suspect simplescan is not using any compression when saving the images to the PDF file. Another work-around, if you have ImageMagick installed:
convert -compress JPEG file-from-simplescan.pdf new-file.pdf -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/853648 Title: SimpleScan saves PDFs as very large (26.6MiB) files per Page To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/simple-scan/+bug/853648/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
