PDF tools · preset 50 KB
The portal said: PDF, under 50 KB. 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 the tightest portals in common use: visa and passport applications, consulate uploads and exam boards with a hard 50 KB cap.
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Fixed by this page, the visa-portal 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. At this target it usually must step a long way down, and the photos pay for it.
Before you run it: a scanned page is a picture, so squeezed scans come out softer to read, and at 50 KB much softer. 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 50 KB. The target is the tightest in common use, so expect the deepest settings the tool has: the result line prints the exact size reached and the photo setting used, before you download.
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, and some files cannot reach 50 KB at all; when that happens the result line states the smallest size it could reach, 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 50 KB is the tightest door in common use: visa and passport application portals, and some consulate and exam-board uploads, cap a document there. This page is the Compress PDF tool with the target already set to 50 KB, so the job is two clicks: pick the file, run.
No, and the page will not pretend. 50 KB is deep in the shrink ladder: a photo-heavy PDF has to give up a lot of photo to get there, and a PDF whose bulk is not photos may not have enough to give up at all. 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, sometimes much softer; at 50 KB a scanned page is a copy you file, not a copy you read for pleasure. 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.