ghostscript

#!/bin/bash

 

#

#  /Share/Scans/ReducePDF.sh

#

# Script Created By ...redacted....

#

# This script is used to reduce the size of PDF files using Ghost Script and place them into a new folder.

#

# Ghost Script usually has a slew of errors on output, this is normal, you can ignore these.

#

 

#monitor folder for new Scans

 

#resize PDF with Ghost Script

gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=${1%\.pdf}-smaller.pdf $1 > /dev/null

 

#move reduced file to /Share/Scans/Smaller Folder

mv *-smaller.pdf ./Smaller/$1-smaller.pdf