What are content streams and why is it taking up 57% of my document?

I optimized my document and content streams went from 4.6% to 57%.
Images went from 4.3% to 29%
Document overhead went from 90% to 2.14%


Heather Christiana


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Content is the "data" (text, images, form fields, comments) within the PDF. A whole book covers the PDF format.

Text Content in PDF files by Jim King
PDFs and Their Content Part 1
PDFs and Their Content Part 2


George Kaiser   


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