How to reduce scanned file sizes (Mac).

Scanning files onto a Mac is silly when the file is much too high quality to send to anyone else via email. I give you this post because the first link I listened to taught me to reduce a quality to this:

Super Blurry Crap

We don't want super blurry crap. We want readable text that doesn't take up over 15MB. So here's what you do...

1. Scan the page (Duh).
2. DO NOT SAVE AS A PDF. SAVE AS A JPEG.
3. Open the JPEG file.
4. File -> Save As.
5. A little bar should show up letting you manually adjust the image quality.
6. Save!

Now your file doesn't take up a ton of space! You can repeat File -> Save As to save it into different file formats, but use the JPEG format to adjust the file size.

You're welcome.