how to compress jpeg to reduce size

[Tapas Mishra]

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>> On Saturday 05 February 2011 11:37:59 pm Tapas Mishra wrote:
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>>> 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.

On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 5:19 AM, Patton Echols <p.echols at comcast.net> wrote:
> Yes, but not by as much as you might think.  I did a test starting with an
> image as it was saved by the camera like this:
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> $ convert DSC_1896.JPG -quality 93 DSC_1896-small.jpg
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> The original file was 2.7Mib, the resulting file was 1.1Mib.
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> Then look at the pictures, still using imagemagick
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Thanks this was quite helpful.I was looking for this only.