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PDF Compressor

Reduce scanned or image-heavy PDF size with browser-based raster compression.

—Pages
—Original size
—Output size

Choose a PDF to begin.

How this compressor works

Each PDF page is rendered as an image, recompressed as JPEG and rebuilt into a new PDF. This works best for scanned or image-heavy documents.

Important limitation

The output is rasterized. Selectable text, vector graphics, links and form fields are flattened.

Not always smaller

Text-heavy PDFs may already be highly optimized, so the compressed output can occasionally be the same size or larger.