By default, I believe Lexmark scanners will try to scan in color at a high resolution. Try setting it to black/white and lowering the resolution.

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On Sep 16, 2011, at 7:18 PM, Michael Sullivan <sandwichhead@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> I scan alot of documents through my Lexmark scanner using their software to
> create PDF docs and store them, but they are sometime quite large(20-40MB).
> Besides WinZip...does anyone have any ideas how I can scan these and
> compress them for emailing?  I tried to email a 28MB file to a Gmail account
> and was denied due to size.  I work remotely from home and sometime
> outsource some of this work and emailing and saving these files in a smaller
> format would help alot, especially during archiving to DVD, etc.  I have
> tried Irfanview software per a suggestion form another listmember, but file
> size is still too large.  Thanks for any recommendations.
> P.S.  I recently tried Adobe Online but have not worked out the quirks, so
> not sure it will work.
> Running Windows 7 Home 64-bit.
> Happy trails.
> Michael in San Antonio
> 91GL Weekender AT 2.1L 'Gringo'