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compress pdf files in a folder

Winston71 answered on April 17, 2023 Popularity 10/10 Helpfulness 2/10

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#[Using Mac or Ubuntu] Reduce the size(MB) of multiple pdf files in a directory.

#Use Ghostscript and a bash script to do this.

#    Install via brew on mac

#$ brew install ghostscript

#   And on Ubuntu

#$ sudo apt install ghostscript

#    1. Place all your pdf files into a folder.
#    2. Create inside the same folder a new empty directory named output/
#    3. In the same folder, create a bash script named script.sh for example.
#    4. Run the script using sh script.sh
    
#---------------------------------------------------------------------
#script.sh
#------------

#!/bin/bash

# Get a list of all .pdf files in the current directory
files=$(ls *.pdf)

# Loop over the list of files
for file in $files
do
  echo "Processing file: $file"

  # Run the GS script for each file
  gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.2 -r200 -dPrinted=false -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=./output/"$file" "$file" &

  # Wait for the previous command to finish before starting the next one
  wait $!

  echo "Finished processing file: $file"
done

echo "All .pdf files have been processed"

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