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Old 08-25-2010, 10:43 AM   #12
Timber
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You are correct sir.

Thanks for helping me with the troubleshooting process. What I thought was OCR happening may not have been. Dang if I know why the files reduced in size. I'd love to be able to get them down to normal e-book size of a few hundred KB

You were quite correct that it looks like the pages are just images of 100-200 KB each. I confirmed this by going into acrobat and exporting images and as you can see below each page is just an image.

Here's an example page http://i1025.photobucket.com/albums/...Image_0001.jpg

In this example, there an image at the bottom, but the rest is plain text, so it looks to a lay person like me like the size of the document could be reduced dramatically by OCR in the appropriate places.

When the file sizes shrank, I assumed that was what had happened, but now it doesn't look like it.

Which I guess brings me back to a whole different question of is there a tool you recommend to do that, because it doesn't look like the ones that I've been trying are doing what I thought they did.
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