OrangeSkin Posted October 19, 2011 Share Posted October 19, 2011 I'm applying to grad schools, a lot of which require an uploaded copy of your scanned transcript. I'm a complete luddite, so my girlfriend scanned it for me last night and saved it as a PDF to my desktop. Somehow it's 31.11 MB, which I gather is obscenely massive--too large, in fact, to be uploaded to any applications. For example, the size limit on one of the websites is 2500 KB, which I've learned is WAY smaller than 31.11 MB. Like I said, I'm a tech moron, so I have no clue how to fix this. Does anyone have any advice? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jnhay Posted October 19, 2011 Share Posted October 19, 2011 Since you've called yourself a tech moron, I'll assume you haven't seen this http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/4-ways-reduce-size-pdf-file/ Just google pdf size reducer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrangeSkin Posted October 19, 2011 Author Share Posted October 19, 2011 jnhay, thanks for the link...tried some of the stuff, but I don't think it's going to work. I managed to copy and paste my transcript to a word document, but it's still 28 MB, which makes no sense to me. Basically, I have to get a 28 MB file down to 2.4 MB. As far as I can tell, that's pretty much impossible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weganator Posted October 19, 2011 Share Posted October 19, 2011 Can you view the text of your transcript in a web browser? The issue is that the scanned transcript is going to be a bunch of large images. You need to get the text of the document to send to them. A 5 page word document would be about 300 KB max. ---------- Post added October-18th-2011 at 09:04 PM ---------- Just read the other response. How many pages is the document? What exactly did you do to produce a 28 MB word file? (that is really big) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jnhay Posted October 19, 2011 Share Posted October 19, 2011 How about this? http://docupub.com/pdfcompress/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrangeSkin Posted October 19, 2011 Author Share Posted October 19, 2011 Thanks for the help jnhay, but I finally figured it out with the help of my girlfriend and photoshop. Success! I really don't know how I did it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bang Posted October 19, 2011 Share Posted October 19, 2011 it sounds like you scanned it at too high a resolution. Dropping it is likely how you fixed it. ~J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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