Shrink PDF file size

[jrwagh333]

I have to make a PDF file less than 500kb

I scanned in the document I needed, couldn't scan as a PDF so I made it into a jpeg. Then pasted the jpeg into Word2003 and saved it as a .doc
Then I converted the .doc to a .pdf using a free online converter.

The PDF is now 650kb. I must reduce this to <500kb. Any help would be appreciated. I only have Acrobat Reader not Acrobat Pro.

Thanks.

 

[Theguy]

Another way you could do it, is if you used OCR from the scanner, to directly scan into word, turning the document into words, instead of a picture. and then, turning it into a pdf?