Compress a PDF to 1MB or under, the gentlest of the common caps, where quality barely has to give anything up. The tool tightens the file structure first, then steps page quality down only if the cap still is not met. The whole job runs in your browser, on your device, nothing uploaded.
Your files are processed in your browser, on your own device. Nothing is uploaded to a server.
One megabyte is where compression stops hurting. Most documents that fail a 1MB cap are only a little over it: a scan saved at printer resolution, a deck with uncompressed pictures. A nudge, not a squeeze, brings them home. This tool gives that nudge properly, structure savings first, the lightest picture step next, stopping the moment the file fits. Tighter portal? The same family goes down through 500KB, 200KB and beyond.
The common causes of an over-1MB PDF are waste, not content: pictures stored far larger than the page shows them, and loose file structure. A phone photo dropped into a document at full camera resolution carries ten times the data its printed size needs. The structural pass rebuilds the file’s packaging and drops dead weight, and the first picture step redraws pages at 180 DPI, still sharper than most screens display. Between those two moves, the overwhelming majority of real documents cross under 1MB with nothing a reader can spot. The exceptions are genuine photo books and design portfolios, where the pictures are the point. There the honest advice is to keep the master file and send a per-chapter split, via Split PDF, when a portal insists on the cap.
Email systems in smaller companies bounce attachments above a megabyte or two, and 1MB is the safe side of that line. Many application portals and cloud drives set their per-file comfort zone here. It is also the size teachers, coaches, and creators pick for handouts and lead magnets, because a 1MB file downloads instantly even on a weak connection.
The cheapest compression happens before any tool: at the moment the file is made. If you produce documents for others, set your scanner to 200 DPI for text work instead of the 600 it defaults to, export presentations with images at screen size, and save word processor files as PDF directly instead of printing and scanning them, a loop that adds weight and kills the text layer in one move. Files born under 1MB never need a rescue, open instantly for the reader, and sail through every inbox and portal on this page’s list. Until that habit forms, this tool is the rescue, and a forgiving one, because at this cap the rescue almost never costs visible quality.
Yes. It is free, with no limits 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.
For most documents, no. The cap is generous, so the tool usually stops after the quality-free structural pass or the mildest picture step at 180 DPI, which looks crisp on screens.
When the structural pass reaches the cap, the pages are untouched and text stays selectable. If picture steps were needed, the result line says so plainly.
Then the pictures are the content, and crushing them defeats the purpose. The result line gives the smallest size reached. Splitting the book into parts, each under the cap, is usually what portals expect anyway.
Yes, though a big file asks more of your device, and a phone may struggle where a computer will not. The tool works page by page and reports its progress as it goes.
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.
Shrink a PDF so it fits email and upload limits.
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.