Compress PDF Online
Make a PDF smaller. Light keeps your text selectable; Strong turns pages into pictures for big scans.
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Make a PDF smaller. Light keeps your text selectable; Strong turns pages into pictures for big scans.
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Shrink a PDF for email or upload forms. Light mode tidies the file and keeps text; Strong mode rebuilds each page as a compressed picture, which helps most for scanned documents.
Light mode only tidies the structure, so already-efficient PDFs may not shrink. Try Strong, which re-encodes every page as a picture.
Pages become pictures, so text is no longer selectable or searchable. It works best for scans, which are pictures already.
72 is smallest, 110 is a good balance for reading on screen, and 150 is sharper for printing.
Yes, and you do not need an account. The free plan allows up to 20 MB and 5 files at a time, and 10 free uses a day. After that you can come back tomorrow or choose a plan. The paid plans (Plus and Pro) remove the wait and raise the file size limit to 250 MB and 500 MB.
No. Open the page and use it. There is nothing to install, and it works on phones, tablets and computers.
Open Support from the menu at the top of the page and tell us what happened. A use that fails is not counted against your limit.
Yes. It works in current versions of Chrome, Safari, Edge and Firefox on phones, tablets and computers. Very large files can be slow on older phones.