This repository provides a Python-based solution to compress PDF files to meet the file size requirements of top-tier ML conferences. These venues often require that the size of the submitted papers does not exceed 10MB. This script uses Ghostscript to compress PDF files efficiently.

• Compress individual PDF files.
• Compress all PDF files in a specified directory.
• Replace original files with compressed versions automatically.

• Python 3.x
• Ghostscript

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/MingyuKim87/pdf-compression.git
   cd pdf-compression

2. Install Ghostscript:

   • Ubuntu/Debian:

     sudo apt-get install ghostscript

   • macOS (using Homebrew):

     brew install ghostscript

   • Windows: Download and install Ghostscript from here.

To compress a single PDF file, you can use the compress_pdf function directly. Example:

from pdf_compression import compress_pdf

input_file_path = 'path/to/your/input.pdf'
output_file_path = 'path/to/your/output.pdf'
compress_pdf(input_file_path, output_file_path)