Recommended PDF Compression
Balanced compression tuned for everyday documents.
About Recommended PDF Compression
The job of Recommended PDF Compression is narrow on purpose: balanced compression tuned for everyday documents. It takes PDF and produces PDF. If a run goes wrong there is nothing to chase: no job sitting on a server, no upload to ask anyone to delete.
Reach for it when making a document lighter without wrecking it is a one-off rather than a workflow: one file, one result, no account in front of it.
How to use Recommended PDF Compression in 3 steps
- Drop the file on the page — PDF, one file up to 100 MB.
- Set Compression strength — low, recommended, extreme, or custom, which then exposes Render resolution and JPEG quality.
- Press Compress PDF and download the PDF result.
What you get with Recommended PDF Compression
- One job, done in the browser: balanced compression tuned for everyday documents.
- Free to use, with no signup and no account
- No watermark or logo added to your output
- Works on desktop and mobile, no install
Recommended PDF Compression: questions
- Which file types does Recommended PDF Compression accept?
- The drop area takes PDF. Files are read from your device in the browser, so the format has to be one a browser can decode — that is why the accepted list on this page is finite and honest rather than "everything".
- What do I get back from Recommended PDF Compression?
- The result is PDF, offered as a download the moment the work finishes. Multiple results come back together rather than as fifty separate save dialogs.
- How big a file can I use?
- Up to 100 MB per file and 50 files per batch. There is no server queue behind that limit; the practical ceiling is your browser's memory, so split unusually large documents into two runs.
- Does my file get uploaded?
- No. The page reads the file through the browser's own file API and processes it in the tab. Closing the tab discards the working copy, which is why there is no storage to clear and no retention policy to read.