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What settings to use when making 7zip files in order to get maximum compression when compressing PDFs?

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Mar 15, 202677625 views
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What settings to use when making 7zip files in order to get maximum compression? I'm compressing PDF documents containing scanned images. I'm thinking about using LZMA2, but I don't know what to set in dictionary size, word size, etc. Also, would LZMA or PPMd be better options? I need to have some …

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The content of the PDFs (text & images) is probably already compressed -- so there's not going to be much to gain by trying to compress them again.

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