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Compress PDF

Compress large PDF files without hurting readability. Reduce them below e-mail and upload limits.

📁 Choose file and convert
✅ Free🔒 Files are deleted after processing💻 No installation📱 Works on mobile

Make PDFs smaller when they cannot be attached to an e-mail or exceed the upload limit of an application site. You choose the compression ratio as a percentage; the text stays readable while the file size drops noticeably.

How does it work?

  1. Select your PDF file
  2. Choose the compression ratio
  3. Download the compressed PDF

Key features

  • Ratio control (%)
  • Text stays readable
  • Big savings on scanned documents

Frequently asked questions

How much smaller does a PDF get?

It depends on the document; scanned and image-heavy PDFs often shrink several times.

Does quality suffer?

Images are recompressed according to the chosen ratio; at the default setting the text stays sharp.

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