Why Does a Scan of a Simple Text Document Result in Such a Large File?

✔️It's possible that a scan of a document results in a graphics file that is too large to email. I'll review options for more manageable results.

Scanning documents
Scanning is the equivalent of taking a photograph of a document. Options to make the resulting file smaller: use OCR to return only the text found in the picture, scan at a lower resolution, or save .jpg files at a lower quality setting.

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0:00 Scan of a Text Document Results in a Large File
0:27 Text versus picture
1:11 Scanning creates a picture
2:40 Option 1: OCR
4:40 Option 2: Scan resolution
5:40 Option 3: Adjust compression

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