PDF Nano could dramatically reduce the size of PDF, while keeping the images and texts clear enough for screen readers.
Actually, PDF Nano is an Automator workflow, therefore it works on macOS only, as a service on the context menu.
You will need Ghostscript, a famous interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF.
To install Ghostscript, you can:
- follow the official guide
- or use Homebrew:
brew install ghostscript - or download and open this install package
Open PDF Nano.workflow and install the service.
Right-click the PDF and select PDF Nano service on the context menu, and just wait for the magic.
- The magic may come slowly if the PDF is large. For example, it may take 40s to compress a PDF from 40MB to 2MB. Yeah, I know it’s a bit slow.
- Maybe not just a bit.
- File stream is not supported yet.
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