Compress PDF to 200KB

Drop your PDF into the box above and press Compress. The tool is already set to a 200KB target, so it automatically applies the lightest compression that gets you under 200KB, then hands you a download link. The whole process happens on your own device.

Most can. Text-heavy documents compress dramatically. Very long scanned documents — say 100+ pages of high-resolution photographs — may not reach 200KB while staying readable. In that case we return the smallest usable version and tell you the target was missed, so you can split the document instead.

We always try the gentlest setting first and only escalate if the file is still too large. For typical business documents at 200KB, text stays perfectly sharp because it remains real vector text — only embedded images are downsampled.

Rarely, and it is usually counterproductive. The first pass already removes structural waste and downsamples images; a second pass mostly re-encodes already-degraded JPEGs, which loses more quality for negligible gain. Prefer a stronger preset on the original file instead.

Yes, with no file limits, no watermarks and no account. Because processing happens on your device rather than our servers, there is no per-file cost to recover and therefore no reason to meter your usage.

Nothing persists. The compressed result lives in your browser tab's memory until you download it, and everything is discarded the moment you close or refresh the page. There is no server-side copy because the file was never sent anywhere.

Progress tracks pages completed, not time elapsed, and pages differ enormously in cost. A page holding one large photograph takes far longer than ten pages of plain text, so the bar appears to stall. It is still working — the Web Worker keeps the interface responsive throughout.

Any modern browser with WebAssembly support: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari, Brave, Opera and Vivaldi, on desktop and mobile alike. There is no minimum specification beyond that — older or lower-powered devices simply take longer on large documents.

It depends on the content. Scanned or image-heavy documents commonly shrink by 70–95%. Text-only PDFs that were already optimized may only drop 5–20%, since there is little redundant data left to remove.

Your PDF was probably already optimized — for instance exported by Acrobat with compression enabled, or generated as pure text with subset fonts. When we cannot beat the original we deliberately return your untouched file rather than a worse one.