Compress a PDF
Shrink scanned or picture-heavy PDFs until they fit in an email. Your file never leaves your device.
How it works
Pick your PDF
Drop the file or choose it from your device. Nothing is uploaded.
Pick a setting
Pick a compression level. Balanced is enough for most documents.
Download
Save the finished file or carry on with another PDF tool.
What this tool does
Documents scanned with a phone and PDFs with photos take a lot of space and may not fit in an email or an application portal. This tool saves the pages again at a lower resolution to make the file smaller.
Note: because pages are turned into images, text in the result cannot be selected or searched. PDFs that are mostly text barely shrink; in that case we tell you.
Frequently asked questions
No. Pages are saved as images, so text cannot be selected or searched. Keep the original file if you need the text.
Scanned and photo PDFs often shrink by more than half. Text-heavy PDFs may shrink a little or not at all.
No. Everything runs in your browser, on your own device. Your PDF is never sent anywhere, never reaches us and is never stored.