Ubuntu
xsane package

  1. Bug #75384
  2. Comment #15

Comment 15 for bug 75384

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Tessa Lau (tlau) wrote :

I also suffer from this problem. A ten-page scan of a printed document results in a 43MB PDF.

What I found which works well is to apt-get install libtiff-tools and then use xsane to print to TIFF, and tiff2pdf to convert to PDF. The result is only 5MB and appears to have similar quality to the original file.

Moreover, the PDF generated via the original process results in thousands of errors like these when viewed in GNOME Document Viewer:

Error (588813): Illegal character <56> in hex string
Error (588814): Illegal character <a6> in hex string
Error (588815): Illegal character <af> in hex string
Error (588816): Illegal character <5c> in hex string