Compress PDF

A smaller file. The same useful document.

Drop your PDF here

PDF · Up to 20 MB · Up to 100 pages

or drag and drop a file

Works with text and scanned PDFs. Password-protected and digitally signed PDFs are not supported. Savings depend on the original file.

Files are used only for this compression and deleted afterward.

A lighter PDF, in three steps

  1. Choose your PDFUpload one PDF from your device, up to 20 MB and 100 pages.
  2. Choose how to compressStart with Balanced, or choose Lossless to keep image quality. Strong reduces image size further.
  3. Review and downloadSee the actual savings, open your PDF and save it to your device.

Transparent, monochrome and CMYK images keep their original quality. We keep the original file if optimization would make it larger.

About Compress PDF

Make your PDF smaller while keeping text selectable.

Supported input
An unencrypted, unsigned PDF.
What you get
An optimized PDF with an actual before/after byte comparison.
Limits and accuracy
20 MB and 100 pages. Lossless optimizes objects and streams; Balanced and Strong may reduce eligible image resolution and quality. Pages are not rasterized. If optimization cannot save space, the original is explicitly returned unchanged.
Where processing happens
The document is processed in an isolated temporary directory on the WOG Labs server. Request files are deleted before the response is returned.

How to use Compress PDF

  1. Upload a supported PDF.
  2. Choose Lossless, Balanced or Strong compression.
  3. Compare the actual sizes, open the result and download it.