Compress PDF
Make PDF files smaller for email and uploads while keeping them readable. Compression runs in your browser, so your documents stay private.
About Compress PDF
Compress PDF makes files smaller so they fit email limits and upload forms. It offers three levels. Extreme and Recommended re-draw each page as an optimized image at a lower resolution, which gives large savings on scans and image-heavy documents; text in the output is no longer selectable. Basic keeps your text and simply tidies the file, so savings are smaller.
Need to make PDF smaller for an email or a web form? This PDF compressor will shrink PDF files in a few clicks and show you exactly how much space you saved.
You can compress several files at once and download the results as a ZIP. If a file can’t be made smaller, the tool keeps your original instead of giving you a bigger one, and it shows you the before and after sizes.
Tips
- Text-only PDFs are usually small already, so expect little change.
- After compressing, zoom in on small print and signatures to make sure they are still readable.
- Read How to reduce PDF file size to choose the right level.