appendix-a-compressing-pdfs

Before running the code, run:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Then, make sure to get an Apryse API key here. Then, put it in the API_KEY variable in the pdf_compressor.py script.

Finally, run the script with the PDF file you want to compress as an argument:

$ python pdf_compressor.py bert-paper.pdf

PDFNet is running in demo mode.
Permission: read
Permission: optimizer
Permission: write
Input file & size: bert-paper.pdf, 757.00KB
Output file & size: bert-paper_compressed.pdf, 497.04KB
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