Compress any PDF to under 500 kilobytes for email attachments, business proposals, and standard document submissions.
or drag and drop a PDF here
500 KB is the size most people actually need. A business proposal with a dozen pages and a handful of images compresses here with no visible change. Photos stay recognizable, text stays sharp, charts keep their colors. The Recommended quality level is almost always enough.
If your source is a massive scan or a PDF packed with high-resolution photography, the compressor may reach for High to hit 500 KB. That trims photo detail a little, nothing most readers will notice.
Drag a file into the compressor above, or click to browse. Any valid PDF works.
Choose a quality level for quick compression, or set an exact target file size in KB or MB.
Your compressed PDF is ready in seconds. The original stays untouched on your device.
Gmail, Outlook, and most corporate inboxes accept 500 KB PDFs without friction. They render as previews and land in the inbox quickly.
A 10 to 15 page proposal with a few charts and photos compresses to 500 KB and keeps the branding intact.
Mortgage applications, grant submissions, and legal filings often bundle a dozen pages. 500 KB fits the full packet.
Google Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive upload a 500 KB PDF in under a second on most connections. No waiting, no failures.
60–80%
Scans are essentially full-page images, so the compressor has the most to work with. Contracts, receipts, signed forms all shrink dramatically.
40–60%
Charts, photos, and embedded graphics compress well. Text and tables stay untouched. The file size drops, the content stays the same.
10–20%
Already compact by nature. The compressor cleans up internal structure and metadata without any visible changes to your PDF.
Compress as many PDFs as the day demands. Proposals, contracts, reports, whatever needs to fit under 500 KB before it goes out. There is no per-day cap. The tool is ad-supported and costs you nothing.
Open the compressor above. 500 KB is already preset as the target size. Drop your PDF in, and the tool compresses to fit under half a megabyte. Most business PDFs, reports, and scanned packets hit 500 KB cleanly at the Recommended quality level without any visible loss.
Same tool, change the target. Type 1024 in the KB field (1 MB equals 1024 KB). 1 MB is a generous cap. Almost every PDF, even multi-page image-heavy ones, compresses to 1 MB at the Recommended quality level with the original detail preserved.
Yes, and this is one. No account to create, no watermark on the output, no cap on how many PDFs you compress in a day. The tool is ad-supported, which keeps it free for users. Most competing "free" compressors either limit you to a few files per day, stick a watermark on the output, or gate the best quality levels behind a paid tier.
The best compressor for PDFs specifically is the one that lets you control the output size directly. Most desktop apps compress by quality level only, so you guess at file size and run the tool twice when you guess wrong. The target size mode on this page hits the exact KB value you specify in one pass.