Papa j Loc: Cary NC

I have a 34 page doc I need to scan and email. I scanned the doc at 300 dpi and it is too large to email. What is a lower resolution that will allow a readable transmission

Thanks as always

Joe

CindyHouk Loc: Nw MT

You could try it at 200 dpi, or if you have a Google Drive account...you can upload it to your account and then provide a link to the document for the other party to download.

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/google-docs-for-business-documents/

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive and DropBox all have basic free accounts for sending/trading larger files.

juan_uy Loc: Uruguay

If you want it readable on screen, with way lower than that it would work. In the past 92dpi I think was the suggested, but you may need more with newer screens.
I suggest you try just one page to be sure

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

Will a PDF work for you?
Mark

Papa j Loc: Cary NC

I did scan as a pdf with the resolution set at 300dpi. The file was too large to send

Joe

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

You might want to go down to FedEx/Kinkos and scan there into a PDF with help of a technician there.

At home, you might try creating a Word document and placing each scanned image into a page in the document and save-as the results into a PDF selecting some of the sizing options of the PDF. A Powerpoint saved to PDF is a similar idea where each image is each slide

Finally, consider editing the images file by file after scanning, creating smaller individual files, to be sent as individual files or incorporated into a Word document or Powerpoint that consolidates the images into a single file for sending. Use your image editor to resize the scanned images into a size useful for your Word / PPT presentation. A printed document is page 8.5x11-inches in the US. If you set your edited images to this size and adjust the quality to say 70%, you should get much smaller sized files. You can experiment seeking to find the resolution / file size and JPEG quality that lowers the file sizes down to the minimum until the image quality is impacted.

The process of resizing the images is demonstrated in this post, including suggestions for the pixel resolution of images for email. You might find you can sent 3 or 4 at a time if you just lower the resulting file sizes down to 1MB area. Managing the pixel resolution and JPEG quality are the parameters to address when editing the scanned results. https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-512745-1.html

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Did you create a PDF as a document or pictures.

Papa j Loc: Cary NC

As a doc

dsmeltz Loc: Philadelphia

Are you scanning text only or text and images?

What scanning software are you using?

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I recently discovered scanning in PDF format. Then I can combine all the pages into one PDF file. There are free online services to do that combining. You can also use something like DropBox to get the files from one place to another.

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

Scan it smaller (150 or 200 ppi), use Dropbox, or use some other service like www.wetransfer.com to send the file.

dsmeltz Loc: Philadelphia

Good idea Gene.

OP,
If you do not need to email, then dropbox. If it must be email, you could use (or create) and outlook.com address and email it using Onedrive. In fact the regular email size limit for outlook.com accounts is, I think, 10GB without using Onedrive.

What email service are you using and what is the size limit?

TBerwick Loc: Houston, Texas

If you created the doc with a "modern" word processor, you should be able to do a save as or a print function to output a .PDF file. Should come in about 100mb which is a far cry from a scan of that many pages.