EZPZ FileBring a PDF under an email attachment or upload limit. Pick the safe route or the aggressive one.
No upload
Drop a PDF here
Pick one file and its page count is read. The file is not sent anywhere.
The current size and page count are shown.
The default is "Shrink the photos". Set how far to go with resolution and quality. If you need more, switch to "Redraw pages as images".
It tells you how much it saved. If the result would be larger, you get the original back instead.
Almost all of a PDF's size is the photos inside it. Text weighs tens of kilobytes at most. So re-encoding just the photos at a lower resolution shrinks the file a great deal without touching a single letter.
Text, tables and lines stay exactly as they were, still selectable and searchable. Photos in formats that cannot be handled safely are left alone, and the result tells you how many were shrunk and how many were left.
Every page is redrawn as an image at the resolution you set. Documents full of photos or scans often drop below half their size.
The cost is that text becomes part of the image, no longer selectable or searchable. Not for documents you have to file or archive; good for material that only needs to be looked at.
Lower resolution saves more but blurs the text. Around 120 DPI is a comfortable point for reading on screen.
If the photos inside are already small, or the document is mostly text, there is little to remove. Photos with transparency and black-and-white scan formats are left alone because re-encoding them makes things worse. In that case try "Redraw pages as images", or drop the pages you do not need.
Then you get the original back with a note saying so. We will not grow a file in the name of compressing it.
No. Once text becomes an image, the original text is gone. Keep your original file.
The image method redraws every page, so yes. Progress is shown as a count, and a warning appears on phones where memory may run short.
The file will not attach to Gmail, or WhatsApp squashes your video. You search for a transfer site, open the first result, and it asks you to create an account. What each free option actually allows in 2026, and who can read your file.
You hit send and get "attachment too large". The file is 28 MB, Gmail's limit is 25 MB. You need to lose 3 MB and have no idea where they are.
You need to merge and compress your certificates for a form tonight. The first file works. On the second, a message appears: you have used up today's allowance. What iLovePDF, Smallpdf, PDF24 and others actually publish about free use, and how to finish without paying.