Asking for advice regarding scanning a textbook

[Paul Smith]

On 7/15/07, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Thanks, Dotan. I have set the resolution at 300 dpi, but I get 1 MB
> > > per page. Can one reduce the size of the pdf file?
> >
> > Sorry, I was wrong. Actually, I get 35 KB per page, after saving it to a file.
>
> 35 kb? That's tiny. You're not saving as jpg, are you? Go for png, but
> if that's too large then look at gif. About 100-150 kb sounds about
> right in my opinion, based upon faxes that I've received as pngs.

The first page, 35kb, but the other ones, 100-150 kb, in pdf format.
Xsane let us save the scanning result directly in pdf.

Paul