Compress PDF Files

Yes. Compression is a trade-off between size and quality. Light keeps the highest quality with smaller reductions, Balanced fits most documents, and Strong reduces size the most with possible image quality trade-offs.

It depends on your document content and the compression level. Image-heavy PDFs typically compress more than text-only PDFs. Balanced often achieves around 40–70% size reduction.

Currently, password-protected or encrypted PDFs are not supported. You will need to unlock the PDF first (only if you have permission), then compress it.

We process your file securely on our servers to perform compression. After you download the compressed file, it is scheduled for automatic deletion shortly afterwards.