Compress PDFs without breaking click-to-enlarge or selectable text. Merge, split, convert images to PDF, and export pages as images. Everything runs in your browser. Nothing uploads, nothing stores, nothing tracks.
Drop PDFs here, click to upload, or paste
Process one PDF or a full batch · Files stay on your device
Recommended. Recompresses embedded images while preserving click-to-enlarge, selectable text, links, and form fields.
Lower quality means smaller files. 70 to 85 is the sweet spot for most documents.
Why this PDF compressor preserves what others break
Most free PDF compressors rasterize every page into a single flat JPEG and rebuild the file as a slideshow. That gets huge file size reduction, eighty to ninety percent in some cases, but it destroys everything that makes a PDF a PDF instead of a slideshow. Click-to-enlarge dies. Selectable text becomes unsearchable images. Hyperlinks stop working. Form fields disappear. Annotations vanish. Bookmarks break. CompanyCam inspection reports, real estate disclosure packets, signed contracts, and any PDF where the structure matters all get gutted.
Smart compression takes a different approach. It walks the PDF object tree, finds the embedded image streams that account for most of the file size, and re-encodes only those images at lower quality. The PDF's structural objects, the page tree, the cross-reference table, the annotation dictionaries, the form field hierarchy, all stay intact. Your photos still zoom. Your text still selects. Your links still work. File size reduction is more modest, typically thirty to sixty percent, but the document still functions as a document.
When to use which PDF tool
Compress
Email attachment too big, PDF slow to load, storage running low
Smart mode preserves click-to-enlarge and text. Maximum mode flattens everything for smallest file size. Pick based on whether the document needs to stay interactive.
Merge
Multiple invoices into one statement, scattered chapters into a book, several scans into a single deliverable
Combines any number of PDFs into one in the order you choose. All pages, bookmarks, and metadata from each source are preserved.
Split
Extract one chapter from a long book, separate signed pages from a contract, break a 200-page bundle into per-client files
Page ranges mode produces multiple smaller PDFs from your specified ranges. Every-page mode produces one PDF per page for batch sorting.
Images to PDF
Combine receipts, photos, screenshots, or scanned documents into a single PDF
Each image becomes one page. Useful for expense reports, evidence packages, photo logs, and any deliverable where multiple images need to travel together.
PDF to Images
Extract reference images, build thumbnails for a blog post, share a single page on social media
Each PDF page becomes a separate PNG or JPG. Resolution from 96 to 300 DPI for everything from web previews to print quality.
How PDF size affects SEO and page speed
PDFs hosted on your site count toward overall page weight when they appear in iframes, embeds, or as direct downloads from above-the-fold content. A twenty-megabyte PDF brochure linked from your services page does not load until clicked, but a five-megabyte PDF embedded in a viewer on page load can tank your Largest Contentful Paint score. PDFs themselves can also rank in Google search, and lighter files index more reliably across crawl cycles. For sites that publish whitepapers, case studies, spec sheets, or compliance documents, regular PDF compression is part of basic technical SEO hygiene.
Frequently asked questions about PDF tools
Your PDFs never leave your device
Every operation runs locally inside your browser. No uploads to a server, no temporary file storage, no tracking pixels, no cookies. Safe for legal documents, medical records, contracts, financial statements, and any business-critical PDF where confidentiality matters. Most online PDF tools cannot say the same.
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