I've about 15 gigabyte of PDFs scanned with an old version of Adobe Acrobat that are huge.
Adobe Acrobat XI Standard that comes with my new scanner has an option to (it seems lossless) recompress these PDFs. Usually this saves over 2/3 of a document, often even 80% or 90%.
Given that there is about 7 thousand files, I want to automate this process.
This is how you do this manually:
- open the PDF file in Adobe Acrobat XI Standard
- in the
File
menu choose,Save as Other...
thenReduced size PDF
- in the dialog, from
Make compatible with
chooseAcrobat 10 and later
, then pressOK
- in the
Save As
dialog, keep the filename, then pressSave
- wait (sometimes long, this can take a minute for files that like 50 megabytes large) for completion
How can I automate this?
(it looks like the ScanSnap software does at least some UI automation here and there, so it looks possible somehow)