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Make a scan smaller in a scanned ebook from a phone

Scans are big. Shrink the file for email or upload limits. Camera foreshortening is fitted as a horizontal scale on each line, and the paper grain around the word is kept, so the new word sits in the photo like the old one.

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How to do it

  1. 1.Open Compress PDF.
  2. 2.Add the scanned PDF.
  3. 3.Download the smaller file.

Scanning with a phone

  • • Phone scanners photograph the page, straighten and crop it, and save the image into a PDF.
  • • Photos carry perspective, uneven light and JPEG compression, and some apps add a hidden OCR text layer.

What people change in an ebook

  • • Typos
  • • Links
  • • Author bio
  • • Copyright year
  • • Cover details

Questions people ask

+Why are scans so large?

Every page is a full picture, often in colour at high resolution.

+Do I need to convert the scan to Word first?

No. MythosPDF edits the scanned page itself. There is no conversion, so the page keeps its look.

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