PDF Compressor

Compress PDF files using Ghostscript

pdf
~20s
Free

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PDF Compressor - Free Online Tool

PDF Compressor is a powerful free online tool that helps you compress pdf files using ghostscript. Works directly in your browser without downloads or account creation.

Fast

Secure

Any Device

No Signup

How to Use

  1. Upload - Select your file
  2. Configure - Adjust settings if needed
  3. Process - Click the button
  4. Download - Get your result

Supported Formats

application/pdf

Best Situations for PDF Compression

PDF files accumulate size from multiple sources: embedded fonts, high-resolution images, layers of annotations, and metadata accumulated through editing cycles. A document that started as a few hundred kilobytes can balloon to tens of megabytes after revisions.

The PDF Compressor proves most valuable in specific scenarios. Legal and financial professionals regularly email documents that exceed typical attachment limits. Students submitting assignments through learning management systems encounter upload restrictions. Job applicants find their carefully designed resumes rejected by application portals with strict size caps. Archivists digitizing paper records need sustainable file sizes for long-term storage. The tool analyzes PDF structure to identify opportunities for size reduction - downsampling images to appropriate resolutions, removing duplicate resources, and optimizing internal data streams - while maintaining the documents visual fidelity and text searchability.

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