PDF Compress

Free

Reduce PDF file size while keeping it readable. Choose strong, balanced, or light compression to make large scans small enough to email, free.

Drop a PDF to compress

Up to 100.0 MB

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How to get the best results

  1. 1Drop a PDF.
  2. 2Pick Strong, Balanced, or Light compression.
  3. 3Compare the sizes and download.
  • Balanced suits email and sharing; use Light when the PDF will be printed.
  • Text-only PDFs are already small; image-heavy scans shrink the most.

Example

You give

A 24 MB scanned report (Balanced)

You get

A readable PDF of about 3–5 MB that fits in an email

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