But it has bugs with handling some images... converts them to black boxes. I'd only use this one if you manually verify the result first (so not a fully scripted process). (Or this could be due to me not installing all the bleeding edge dependencies from source as instructed.)
Re:Sci-Hub’s cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription...
by mkl on Thursday July 27, 2017 @08:57PM
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Thanks. I didn't try Multivalent as I didn't have a Java VM. Maybe I should take another look. I tried pdfsizeopt, and IIRC it didn't actually reduce my particular PDFs.
http://multivalent.sourceforge.net/download.html
If you run
java tool.pdf.Compress file.pdf
it will generate file-o.pdf and often trim quite a bit of weight.
That's probably what I would suggest sci-hub use too because it's easy to use and automatic.
EDIT: this looks quite promising too: https://github.com/pts/pdfsizeopt
But it has bugs with handling some images... converts them to black boxes. I'd only use this one if you manually verify the result first (so not a fully scripted process). (Or this could be due to me not installing all the bleeding edge dependencies from source as instructed.)