How to make an image file smaller in size.

[Apelila]

It sounds like your scanner is shitting out a huge image resolution wise. open that bad boy in paint and press Cntrl+E to see what the attributes are and let us know.

[SephYuyX]

How did you convert them in to a .pdf? Using a PDF printer? (a virtual printer that saves as PDF).
72DPI is fairly small.. no reason it should be 24MB..

I would double check how your scanner is scanning stuff in, or check the application youre using to do the scanning.

[Corrderio]

If it's not a resolution issue you can download a free image editing program like GIMP and save as a PNG with a tad bit lower quality or something. Though I'm sure Apelila is right about the scan being a big assed resolution.

[Woozie]

It sounds like your scanner is shitting out a huge image resolution wise. open that bad boy in paint and press Cntrl+E to see what the attributes are and let us know.

How did you convert them in to a .pdf? Using a PDF printer? (a virtual printer that saves as PDF).
72DPI is fairly small.. no reason it should be 24MB..

I would double check how your scanner is scanning stuff in, or check the application youre using to do the scanning.

I just rightt click the file and choose "Convert to Adobe PDF". I think adobe is the program that does it.

Edit: That image is the properties of the actual image file. The PDF itself is 24,189 KB

[Woozie]

Problem solved. I did what Seph said about checking my scanner settings. I think I was scanning it as a picture instead of a document. I'm not sure why that made the difference, but it did. Thanks.

[Apelila]

Well, from what you posted its the conversion process that was doing it. Notice the size on disk is 230.2KB? That size(resolution) is freaking huge though, it could be reduced 30-40% easy.

Not that it matters now that you've fixed it

[arus2001]

nvm

[SephYuyX]

Problem solved. I did what Seph said about checking my scanner settings. I think I was scanning it as a picture instead of a document. I'm not sure why that made the difference, but it did. Thanks.

Picture option scans with more attributes that increase the file size; resolution, color and not b/w, etc, while document scanning is usually pretty basic since theres no real detail thats needed to be captured unless youre trying to do OCR.