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Super Compression: 90% smaller files, zero quality loss
MetaServer analyzes every document and applies the super compression method best suited to its content.
For "Super Compression", we use MRC (Mixed Raster Content) compression. It works by separating a document's content layers (text, images, and backgrounds) and compressing each layer intelligently. The result is a dramatically smaller file size while still retaining the original image quality.
The biggest challenge with compression is usually quality loss. Super Compression is built to avoid that.
Text stays sharp and searchable. Highlights remain visible. Images keep their detail. Layouts stay exactly as designed. Every color in the original document is preserved, so the compressed file looks practically identical to its original, but at only a fraction of its file size.
Storage space has stopped being the main problem. Take your smartphone for example. The market standard for storage space on your phone ranges from 256GB to 1TB. But more and more documents are transferred over the cloud so bandwidth becomes an issue.
Document processing works best with colored documents, but uncompressed, colored documents are big in file size, so that's why we use, what we call, Super Compression, where we can reduce a color PDF's file size by 10 and still retain its quality.
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No coding required and a free tutorial gets you up and running quickly.
For a quick look at how some of the newest and most popular features of MetaServer work in action, you can also check out our MetaServer demo videos.