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Small Things Sorted

Shrink a PDF

Bring scanned PDFs down to a fraction - the text stays text.

Stays on your device – The processing happens in your browser. Your files are not uploaded.

Drop your files here

or

You can also paste with Ctrl+V.

What you type is processed in your browser and never sent to us.

How to do it

  1. Pick your PDF

    Drop the file in or choose it. Several at once is fine.

  2. Choose a resolution

    150 dpi is plenty for mail and screen, 300 dpi for print. The lower, the smaller the file.

  3. Shrink and download

    Below you see how much was saved - and if there was nothing to gain, that too.

What this is for

The attachment limit is 10 MB and the scan is 30. The government portal accepts 2 MB and your document is twice that. This tool exists for that problem.

What makes a PDF large is almost always the images inside it - in a scan, practically the whole file is one image per page. Those are what gets re-encoded here: at a lower resolution and with stronger compression. A typical A4 scan at 300 dpi comes down to roughly a twentieth at 150 dpi.

The text stays text. Only the images are touched; type, layout and page structure are left exactly as they were. The document remains as searchable as before - unlike tools that turn every page into a picture.

Where there is nothing to gain, the tool says so and hands the file back unchanged. A text-only document cannot be shrunk this way, and giving you back a larger file would be worse than doing nothing.

Common questions

No. The whole process runs in your browser. With contracts, invoices and scans of documents, that is the difference that matters.

Yes. Only the image objects inside the document are touched. Text, fonts and layout are unchanged - verified, not assumed.

Because it holds no images worth re-encoding. In text-only documents the size sits in the embedded fonts, and those cannot be shrunk in a browser. You get the file back unchanged.

As much as you choose. 150 dpi is usually unremarkable on screen and in print for documents; 300 dpi is print quality and saves correspondingly less. Your original is untouched, so trying it costs nothing.

No. A password-protected file cannot be opened; the tool tells you rather than failing silently.

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