How do I compress PDF to 200KB?

Add the PDF to the tool on this page and click Compress. Target size is already 200 KB, so the tool keeps lowering the image resolution until the file is under 200 KB and then shows the new size.

Will compressing to 200 KB make my PDF blurry?

Images can get softer; typed text does not. Only images are resized, and only as far as needed to fit. Open “Compare with original” on the result to check stamps, signatures and small print before you upload.

Is 200 KB here the same as the website's 200 KB?

Almost always. Here a kilobyte is 1,000 bytes, which makes 200 KB equal to 200,000 bytes. That also fits sites that count 1 KB as 1,024 bytes, so the result passes either way.

Is it free to compress a PDF to 200 KB?

Yes. One PDF is free with no account and no watermark. Compressing up to 20 PDFs at once needs a free account.

Is my PDF uploaded anywhere?

No. The compression runs in your browser, and the PDF never leaves your device.

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How many pages fit when you compress PDF to 200KB?

It depends on how much of each page is picture. A typed document with a logo or two usually fits with room to spare. Scans are another matter: every scanned page is one big image, and even at the lowest step (72 DPI) a colour A4 page still needs tens of kilobytes.

In our test, a one-page colour A4 scan of 704 KB came down to 158 KB at Recommended, while a five-page colour scan could not go below about 312 KB at Recommended or 270 KB at Smallest. When a multi-page scan will not fit, scan it again in grayscale or black and white (colour costs the most), drop pages the form does not ask for, or upload the pages as separate files if the site has more than one field.

Why does my PDF stay above 200 KB?

Recommended and Smaller only recompress JPEG images. Plenty of PDFs store their pages some other way: office scanners in black-and-white mode often use CCITT or JBIG2, some apps use JPEG 2000, and others keep images lossless. Those images are kept exactly as they are, and so are fonts, so the file hardly changes.

Smallest works on any PDF, because it draws every page again as a JPEG image and rebuilds the document. The price is that text can no longer be selected or searched. For a scan that costs nothing — its text was a picture all along.