What is the best way to reduce the size of scanned image files?

or what is the best file type? any recommended tools?

Answers:
You can save the file compressed or uncompressed. BMP and TIFF are uncompressed formats, JPG is compressed, and saves a lot of space (the picture is not as clear, but you might not even be able to tell!) You can adjust the resolution when you take the scan to be whatever size you want, or you can adjust it in a photo-editing program like GIMP or Adobe Photoshop.

There are even photo viewing programs that have some simple editing features, and file size is usually among them.

There's a really great photo viewer called ACD See that does some editing. It also allows you to adjust brighteness and contrast, which will improve just about any picture you take with a camera or scan.
decrease dimension or resolution -- use a compressed file format like jpg
use paint and the top rite icon
best is to open the file with microsoft paint in which comes with your windows. import the image, then click on stretch and skew, and reduce proportionately horizontally and vertically
Use .PNG extensions. Its rather good in size and quality
Open the scanned image with MS Paint.Then save the picture using "save as" option .Select the "JPeg " format.
The picture size will be reduced
Download and install a free program called
Irfanview. Load the image with Irfanview and click image then resize. This program will allow to adjust the size of virtually any image
format, including JPEG.
Irfanview will also scan images and is one the best tools for image manipulation.
Best file type is like answering what is the best car, my preference is JPEG. Your scanning software should allow you to save the output as a JPEG file.
Save it as a .JPEG file. The .JPEG format compresses the original image but still gives you a good picture.
You can use the built in Microsoft Paint application
Reduce resolution depending on the medium you will use it on and the size, you can compress picture using jpeg format and selecting the quality.
Try using Photoshop
Image Size and resolution control
And saving in Jpeg format

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