#44 — Tue 16 September 2025 by Evan Chen

I don't know why but my iPhone's Notes scans have increased a ton in size. It's annoying. But somehow the following procedure fixes it:

pdf2ps unreasonably_large_phone_scan.pdf tmp.ps
ps2pdf tmp.ps compressed-output.pdf

Like, I just scanned a 9-page document that was 37MB before and 1.4MB after.