how to compress jpeg to reduce size

[NoOp]

On 02/05/2011 07:19 PM, NoOp wrote:
> On 02/05/2011 02:37 PM, Tapas Mishra wrote:
>> I have an image which is 1.7Mb in size it is a scanned document.
>> I have to submit it online in an application where they do not accept
>> more than 1 Mb size JPEG
>> so how can I reduce the size of this image.Any format other than this
>> gif,png,jpg also is acceptable but
>> file size should be 1 Mb only.So how can I achieve this let me know if
>> some one has any suggestions for the same.
>> 
> 
> $ sudo apt-get nautilus-image-converter

Sorry:
$ sudo apt-get install nautilus-image-converter