private static bool optimizeImage(PdfPaintedImage painted, PdfDocument pdf)
        {
            PdfImage image = painted.Image;

            // inline images can not be recompressed unless you move them to resources
            // using PdfCanvas.MoveInlineImagesToResources
            if (image.IsInline)
            {
                return(false);
            }

            // mask images are not good candidates for recompression
            if (image.IsMask || image.Width < 8 || image.Height < 8)
            {
                return(false);
            }

            // get size of the painted image
            int width  = Math.Max(1, (int)painted.Bounds.Width);
            int height = Math.Max(1, (int)painted.Bounds.Height);

            if (width >= image.Width || height >= image.Height)
            {
                if (image.HasMask)
                {
                    return(false);
                }

                if (image.ComponentCount == 1 && image.BitsPerComponent == 1 &&
                    image.Compression != PdfImageCompression.Group4Fax)
                {
                    image.RecompressWithGroup4Fax();
                }
                else if (image.BitsPerComponent == 8 &&
                         image.ComponentCount >= 3 &&
                         image.Compression != PdfImageCompression.Jpeg &&
                         image.Compression != PdfImageCompression.Jpeg2000)
                {
                    image.RecompressWithJpeg2000(10);
                    // or image.RecompressWithJpeg();
                }

                return(true);
            }

            // try to replace large masked images
            if (image.HasMask)
            {
                if (image.Width < 300 || image.Height < 300)
                {
                    return(false);
                }

                using (var stream = new MemoryStream())
                {
                    PdfPage tempPage = pdf.AddPage();
                    tempPage.Canvas.DrawImage(image, 0, 0, width, height, 0);
                    PdfPaintedImage tempPaintedImage = tempPage.GetPaintedImages()[0];

                    tempPaintedImage.SaveAsPainted(stream);

                    pdf.RemovePage(pdf.PageCount - 1);

                    image.ReplaceWith(stream);
                    return(true);
                }
            }

            if (image.Compression == PdfImageCompression.Group4Fax ||
                image.Compression == PdfImageCompression.Group3Fax)
            {
                // Fax documents usually looks better if integer-ratio scaling is used
                // Fractional-ratio scaling introduces more artifacts
                int ratio = Math.Min(image.Width / width, image.Height / height);

                // decrease the ratio when it is too high
                if (ratio > 6)
                {
                    ratio -= 5;
                }
                else if (ratio > 3)
                {
                    ratio -= 2;
                }

                image.ResizeTo(image.Width / ratio, image.Height / ratio, PdfImageCompression.Group4Fax);
            }
            else if (image.ComponentCount >= 3 && image.BitsPerComponent == 8)
            {
                image.ResizeTo(width, height, PdfImageCompression.Jpeg, 90);
            }
            else
            {
                image.ResizeTo(width, height, PdfImageCompression.Flate, 9);
            }

            return(true);
        }