Make a scanned or photo-heavy PDF smaller, with text kept selectable
Processed in your browser. Nothing is uploaded. Updated on 24 Oct 2026.Compressing a PDF re-encodes the pictures inside it while leaving the text selectable. A ten-page phone scan of 12 MB usually comes out at 2 to 5 MB with no visible change, or about 1 MB on Smaller file; you can also set an exact target size. Up to 10 files of 100 MB each, none of them uploaded.
Press Select PDF files, or drop one or more PDFs onto the page.
Under Compress by choose Level and pick Smaller file, Balanced or Better quality, or choose Target size.
Press Compress and compare the size before and after on each file's row.
Press Download, or Download all as zip for several files; nothing is uploaded.
Compress PDF makes a PDF smaller by re-saving the photos and scanned pages inside it at a lower resolution and quality. You pick Smaller file, Balanced or Better quality, or type a target such as 200 KB, and you see the size before and after for every file along with the total saved.
People use it when an exam, bank or job portal rejects a scanned certificate for being too large, or when a report full of photos will not attach to an email. A ten-page phone scan of 12 MB often ends up around 2 to 5 MB on Balanced, which keeps the pages looking the same even zoomed in, or around 1 MB on Smaller file. A target-size run tries lighter settings step by step and keeps the best quality that fits; if nothing fits, it tells you the smallest size it reached.
How it works, and the trade-off: only pictures are re-encoded, as JPEG, capped at 100, 150 or 200 dots per inch of the page. Text, fonts, links and vector drawings are not touched, so words stay sharp, selectable and searchable, including the hidden text layer that scanner apps add. The cost is that a PDF made mostly of text barely shrinks, and images stored as black-and-white fax, JBIG2, CMYK or palette data are left as they are. If the result is not smaller, you get your original back, never a bigger file.
Everything runs on your device: nothing is uploaded, up to 10 PDFs of 100 MB each. A password-protected PDF asks for its password inline; the compressed copy is saved without it, so use Protect PDF afterwards if it needs one. To drop whole pages, use Organize PDF first.
Drop the PDF on this page, pick Balanced (or Smaller file if it must be tiny), and click Compress. The photos and scans inside are re-saved at a lower resolution, and you see the size before and after. Download the smaller copy with one click. No signup and no upload.
No. The compression runs in your browser on your own device. The file never leaves your computer or phone, which is why certificates, bank statements and ID scans are safe to compress here, and why there is nothing to delete afterwards.
Choose Target size and type 100 or 200, or open the Compress PDF to 100 KB page. The tool tries lighter settings one after another and keeps the best quality that fits. A one or two page scan usually fits; if a long file cannot, it tells you the smallest size it reached.
Yes. Only pictures are re-encoded. Typed text, fonts, links and drawings are left exactly as they were, so you can still select, search and copy words, including the invisible text layer that scanner apps add to scanned pages.
Its size comes from text and fonts rather than pictures, or its images are already compact or stored in formats this tool leaves alone, such as black-and-white fax or CMYK. In that case you get your original back instead of a bigger file, with a note explaining why.
Up to 10 PDFs at a time, each up to 100 MB and 2,000 pages. Images larger than 50 megapixels are left untouched so a phone does not run out of memory. A protected PDF needs its password, and the compressed copy is saved without it.
PDF ko chhota karne ke liye, add the file, pick Balanced or type a target such as 100 KB, and press Compress. Only the pictures inside are re-saved, so text stays selectable. Up to 10 PDFs at a time, each 100 MB and 2,000 pages. A PDF made mostly of text barely shrinks.
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