Dec 24

I recently needed to scan and email a 5 page document to a friend. Unfortunately, the scanned document weighed in at over 30 MB, and I couldn’t find a good way to compress it. I tried SmallImage, which doesn’t take PDF documents as an input file. After fiddling around with Preview, and Googling around to solve the issue, I finally found this Automator workflow written by Paul Scott. Works like a charm!

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/automator/compresspdfworkflow.html

Enjoy!