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reduce-pdf-size.sh
#!/bin/bash
# Script to compress PDF files, be carefull with signed docs
# Original Size: 241M
# output.pdf
# Reduce PDF Size using QPDF
# new size: 217M
qpdf --compress-streams=y --object-streams=generate output.pdf output-qpdf.pdf
# Reducing using Mutool
# new size: 173M
mutool clean -gggg -l -z -f -i output-qpdf.pdf output-qpdf-muclean.pdf
# Reducing again using qpdf
# new size: 160M
qpdf --compress-streams=y --object-streams=generate output-qpdf-muclean.pdf output-compressed.pdf
# Compressing the resulting PDF
# new size: 149M
bzip2 -9 output-compressed.pdf
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