Using a Shortcut To Compress iPhone Scans

https://macmost.com/e-3427 When you scan documents with your iPhone's default apps you often get a file much larger than those produced by third-party apps or using PC scanners. With a simple Shortcut you can significantly compress these kinds of PDFs without losing too much quality.

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00:00 Intro
00:35 iPhone Scan File Sizes Can Be Too Big
01:46 Optimize PDF Action Won't Do It
02:26 Split the PDF Into Pages
02:56 This Is For Scans, Not Other Types Of PDFs
03:51 Compress Each Page As a New JPEG Image
05:41 Create a New PDF With the Compressed JPEGs
06:23 Display Potential File Size Savings
08:10 Saving the New File
08:55 Rename the File
10:08 Testing the Shortcut

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