Make a PDF small enough to email or upload — without sending it anywhere.
🔒 Compression runs on this device. Your PDF is never uploaded.
With Recommended and Strong, each page is re-drawn as an optimised image, so text can no longer be selected or searched. Use Light when you need selectable text, or run the result through OCR Forge.
Compress PDF makes PDF files smaller for email and upload limits. Choose strong, recommended or light compression and compare the sizes before downloading.
Light compression keeps images sharp; strong compression gives the smallest file. Compare the sizes and check the result before you download.
Yes. It is free to use, with no account, no watermark and no paywall.
No. It runs entirely in your browser, so your files and text stay on your device.
It depends on what is inside. Scanned pages and photos often shrink by more than half, while PDFs that are mostly text are already small and shrink less. The tool shows the size before and after.
No. Open it with its password in your PDF reader, save a copy without the password, then compress that copy.
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