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In Pitstop you can use an action to turn any color images to grayscale or bitmap--this is what I would use for PDFs (you can create hot folders for this if you use Pitstop Server). For Tiffs you can set up a batch process that will open the tiffs in Photoshop and change the color mode from 24-bit color to either grayscale or bitmap (grayscale converts to 256 versions of gray while bitmap is only black or white). Hope this helps. _____ John Clifford GTS Companies A TechBooks Company Technical Support 5650 Jillson St., Los Angeles, CA 90040 (323) 888-8889 * FAX (323) 888-1849 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ The GTS Companies: GTS Publishing Services, GTS Graphics, GTS Innova: Your Single-Source Solution! Los Angeles CA * York, PA * Boston MA * New Delhi, India --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Jeffrey A. Campbell > Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 1:29 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PDF] Convert 24bit color to bi-tonal > > > > The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com > __________________________________________________________________ > > I am working on a project that requires scanning over 100,000 pages in > 24bit color. The client wants these pages scanned in color for archival > purposes. I am then taking the files and creating PDFs. > > The majority of the pages are just black & white. > > For scanning, I am using the Xerox Digipath 3.0 system which, > unfortunately, does not automatically recognize color vs bitonal content > (it requires manually changing the settings from color to > bi-tonal). This > is not an option because of the time that it takes. > > The result is a pdf file that is larger than it needs to be. > > Is anyone aware of a utility that can (in batch mode) look a folder of > tiffs (or at a PDF), detect wether or not there is any color on the page > and if there isn't, convert that page to bi-tonal? > > Thanks in advance! > > Jeff > > > > > ============================================= > Jeffrey A. Campbell > Imaging Application Administrator > Yale - RIS Imaging > Phone: 203-436-4911 > Fax: 203-432-6274 > > > > To change your subscription: > http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html > > To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
