When this compressor works best
It is useful for scanned paperwork, photo-heavy PDFs and documents that must fit an email or upload limit. It is not ideal when you must preserve selectable text, forms, digital signatures or accessibility tagging.
Browser-based tool
PDF Compressor
Reduce PDF size by rendering pages at a selected quality and rebuilding the document as a smaller image-based PDF.
Choose a PDF
Create a smaller image-based PDF
This method rasterizes pages to reduce size. Searchable text, links, forms and selectable text may be flattened.
Compressed PDF ready
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Why are pages rasterized?
The tool renders pages as images and rebuilds the PDF.
Will text remain selectable?
Not with image-based compression.