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Compress PDF
Shrink a PDF before emailing it by compressing the pictures inside it, while its text stays selectable.
This tool runs entirely inside your browser. Your file is never uploaded to any server and we keep no copy of it.
Drag a PDF here to make it smaller
How to use it
- Choose a PDF.
- Pick how much to shrink it — Balanced suits most files.
- Press Start, then download the smaller file.
Only the pictures inside the file are re-compressed. The text stays text you can select and search, and lines, tables and links stay as they were. A file with no pictures worth compressing is not handed back larger — the tool tells you it is already small. Pages as pictures turns every page into an image; use it only for a file nothing else helps.