On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 10:59, Robert Fox <list@foxconsult.net> wrote:

Just a quick question to the experts out there . . .

This would probably be better on -discuss than -dev

I have an HP J5780 All-in-One device - and use the HP Device Manager
software under Mageia - When I scan a document into a PDF, the
converted document is rather large (5MB) in comparison to the same
document scanned under Windows 7 and the HP scan-to-PDF feature (465Kb)
- Just wanted to know why is this and can I influence how compressed or
compact the PDF document is under Cauldron?

Do you scan at the same resolution?

The best compression would be to use OCR to get text instead of images but I wouldn't trust it to be accurate

I used to scan with "Acquire Images" or XSane and then paste the scanned
graphic into a LibreOffice document and then create a PDF directly or
use ps2pdf14 to convert a "print to file" postscript output to PDF
(which results in a comparatively small PDF)

Why not generating a PDF directly from XSane?