ossappscollective / ossappscollective/OSS-DocumentScanner

[FEATURE REQUEST] PDF compression by using PDF Tricks

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Description

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
PDF and picture files too large

Describe the solution you'd like
Ability to compress PDF and images when rendering them to filesystem.

PDF Tricks app (https://github.com/muriloventuroso/pdftricks) offers open source solution for manual PDF compression, and the results are impressive. It can sometimes cut down ~50-80% of the original file size, but has to be done manually and is very tedious. It also gets overwritten on every new render.

Maybe implement its compression algorithm?

Describe alternatives you've considered
Compressing it manually, very tedious.

Additional context
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Research direction

Start by locating the rendering-to-filesystem path in OSS-DocumentScanner and review how PDF and image outputs are produced. Compare the requested behavior with PDF Tricks, then define done as applying compression automatically during rendering without requiring manual post-processing.

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Assessment

Tech stack
android, cpp
Domain
mobile-dev, performance
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Active
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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