Compress a PDF down to a size email and upload forms accept, without sending the file anywhere. Choose a light pass that keeps text and images untouched, or a stronger pass that rebuilds pages as clear pictures. The work happens on your device, and the original stays as it was.
Your files are processed in your browser, on your own device. Nothing is uploaded to a server.
Most PDFs get refused for one reason: a scanned page saved at far more quality than a screen needs. This tool shrinks the file in your browser, with three levels that trade size against how the pages are treated. When a form names an exact cap instead, use the fixed-target pages, like Compress PDF to 100KB or Compress PDF to 200KB, which keep squeezing until the file fits under it.
Light compression never touches your pages. It rewrites the file’s internal packaging, so text stays text and images stay images. That also means a well-made PDF may barely shrink, and the tool says so instead of pretending. Balanced and Strong work the way most online compressors work: each page is redrawn as a JPEG picture at a set resolution, which is where the big savings live, because one flat picture weighs far less than layered scans. The cost is real: text in the result cannot be selected or searched, and tiny print softens first. For a document someone must read on screen, Balanced is the sweet spot. For an archive copy, keep the original somewhere safe. And if the file is mostly text with no scans inside, no compressor anywhere will shrink it much, because there is nothing heavy to remove.
An email refuses a 12 MB attachment and the limit is 10, so the PDF takes one Balanced pass. A university portal caps uploads at 2 MB and the thesis appendix is 9. A phone scan of a signed form needs to fit a government site’s limit before the deadline tonight. A sales team trims a brochure so it loads fast from a phone on hotel Wi-Fi. All ordinary, all the same fix.
First, ask what the file is made of. Open it and try selecting a sentence. If the text selects, the file is text-born and Light may be all it needs. If nothing selects, it is a scan, and the picture levels are where its weight lives. Second, ask what the reader must do with it. A file people will search, quote, or feed to other software should keep its text layer, so start at Light and accept a bigger file. A file people will only read can take Balanced without apology. Third, protect the master. Compression here never touches your original, but the moment you download, two versions exist. Name the compressed one clearly, “report-small.pdf” rather than “report (1).pdf”, so the soft copy never gets archived as the real one by mistake. Most compression regret is a filing mistake, not a quality mistake.
Yes. Compression is free, with no file size tier sold back to you later and no watermark. ToolPeko earns from ads on the site, not from your documents.
No. The compression runs inside your browser, on your own device. Your file never travels to us, so there is no copy of it anywhere else.
Only on the Balanced and Strong levels, where pages become pictures. The Light level keeps text and images exactly as they are. The result line on the page tells you which treatment your file got.
It depends on what is inside. A scanned document often drops 70 to 90 percent on Balanced. A text-only PDF made by Word or a browser may drop almost nothing, because it was never bulky to begin with.
Some PDFs are already tightly written, with small images and no wasted structure. The tool detects that, tells you plainly, and hands your original back rather than a worse copy.
Yes. Use Compress PDF to 100KB or the sibling pages for 50KB, 200KB, 500KB and 1MB. They keep lowering quality until the file fits, and say so honestly if a photo-heavy file cannot reach the cap.
Same rules as this one: free, in your browser, with nothing uploaded.
Join many PDFs into one file, in the order you drop them.
Pull pages out, or break one PDF into smaller files.
Fix sideways pages and save them straight.
Keep only the pages you pick, saved as a new PDF.
Delete the pages a PDF does not need.
Drag pages into the right order before you save.
Trim wide margins or cut a page area down to size.
A PDF squeezed under the 50KB cap some portals set.