Scanned document: PC = 400 kb, Mac = 16 MB – Help?

Hello everyone,
I do proofreading work and was advised to buy an 'all in one' scanner/fax/printer, etc. as I need to send regularly up to 50 A4 pages of corrected black and white text. A friend who works with a PC suggested a Hewlett Packard 3030, which works fine, but when I scan 20 pages of B/W text I get around 16 MB. With a PC it's around 400 kb. HP have checked everything and they say it's just the way Macs are made and they don't have any answers.
HP did the test on PC and Mac, 300 dpi, saved as a pdf and got the same results. I've tried asking so many Apple service numbers and dealers (I've given up on the HP), I just need a scanner that will scan my perfectly normal B/W sheets of paper to the same file size as a PC. Clearly the file sizes are too big to use and I'm losing work just sending back jobs by fax.
Anybody help?
Neil

It simply sounds like the settings you have set in the scanner software is different.
when I scan 20 pages of B/W text I get around 16 MB. With a PC it's around 400 kb.
That's not right.
A single 8.5 x 11 page @ 300 dpi is gonna be ~1.2 MB.
To get 50 pages to be only 400kb, they are being compressed.
You are scanning as a jpeg on the PC and as a bitmap on the Mac.

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