PDF tools · preset 1 MB
The limit said: PDF, under 1 MB. This page is set to that target before you start. Pick the file, run the job, and take away a PDF that fits the door, with the exact final size printed on the result. Everything runs in your browser; the file is never uploaded. A different target lives on the Compress PDF page.
For email inboxes, contact forms and content systems with a 1 MB upload limit, the oldest attachment door still standing.
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Fixed by this page, the attachment preset. The page probes the photos inside your PDF, picks a starting setting from the probe, and steps down only as far as it must, so at this generous target the photos usually keep most of their quality.
Before you run it: a scanned page is a picture, so squeezed scans come out softer to read. And a PDF whose pictures are not JPEGs may barely shrink at all. Both are properties of the file, not a fault in the run.
Pick a PDF to begin.
Most of a photo-heavy PDF is the photos inside it. This page reads those photos, recompresses them at a smaller size and quality chosen from a quick probe of your file, rebuilds the PDF, and checks the result against 1 MB. The page steps down only as far as it must, so a document that fits at a gentle setting keeps it.
We shrink PDFs by recompressing the images inside them and tidying the file. A PDF that is already tightly compressed may not get much smaller. We always show you the before and after size, and if we could not make it smaller, we say so and give you back your original. Photos stored in formats other than JPEG are left as they are in this version, and the result line tells you when that happened.
A password-protected PDF cannot be opened by this tool. Take its password off first with the unlock tool, then bring the file back.
Because 1 MB is the oldest attachment limit still standing: plenty of inboxes, contact forms and content systems cap an upload there. This page is the Compress PDF tool with the target already set to 1 MB, so the job is two clicks: pick the file, run.
No, and the page will not pretend. Most photo-heavy documents land well above the tight doors and reach this one comfortably; a PDF whose bulk is not photos, or one that starts only slightly over, may not have enough to give up. When the target cannot be reached, the result line states the smallest size it could reach before you download.
The photos inside are recompressed smaller and softer, and at this generous target usually only a little softer. Text and drawings stay exactly as they were. The result line prints the size and quality setting used, so you can judge the trade.
Nowhere. It is read into this page and processed in your browser. Watch the network panel while it works if you want to check.