how to compress jpeg to reduce size

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On 02/05/2011 02:37 PM, Tapas Mishra wrote:
> I have an image which is 1.7Mb in size it is a scanned document.
> I have to submit it online in an application where they do not accept
> more than 1 Mb size JPEG
> so how can I reduce the size of this image.Any format other than this
> gif,png,jpg also is acceptable but
> file size should be 1 Mb only.So how can I achieve this let me know if
> some one has any suggestions for the same.
> 

$ sudo apt-get nautilus-image-converter

http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/nautilus-image-converter
<https://ubuntugenius.wordpress.com/2010/05/23/easy-picture-resize-rotate-in-ubuntu-with-nautilus-image-converter/>