diff --git a/azure-ocr-service/azure-ocr-service-processor/src/main/java/com/knecon/fforesight/service/ocr/processor/service/AsyncOcrService.java b/azure-ocr-service/azure-ocr-service-processor/src/main/java/com/knecon/fforesight/service/ocr/processor/service/AsyncOcrService.java
index 01daa5f..4f3329e 100644
--- a/azure-ocr-service/azure-ocr-service-processor/src/main/java/com/knecon/fforesight/service/ocr/processor/service/AsyncOcrService.java
+++ b/azure-ocr-service/azure-ocr-service-processor/src/main/java/com/knecon/fforesight/service/ocr/processor/service/AsyncOcrService.java
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ import com.knecon.fforesight.service.ocr.processor.service.imageprocessing.Image
 import com.knecon.fforesight.service.ocr.processor.visualizations.layers.LayerFactory;
 import com.knecon.fforesight.service.ocr.processor.visualizations.layers.OcrResult;
 import com.pdftron.common.PDFNetException;
+import com.pdftron.pdf.Optimizer;
 import com.pdftron.pdf.PDFDoc;
 import com.pdftron.sdf.SDFDoc;
 
@@ -74,6 +75,7 @@ public class AsyncOcrService {
 
         BinaryData docData;
         try (var smallerDoc = extractBatchDocument(pdfDoc, batch)) {
+            Optimizer.optimize(smallerDoc);
             docData = BinaryData.fromBytes(smallerDoc.save(SDFDoc.SaveMode.LINEARIZED, null));
         }
         return docData;