Compress PDF to 200KB
Visa applications, exam registrations and government portals often cap uploads at 200KB. The target size is preset to 200KB here — upload and compress. Everything runs locally in your browser; your file is never uploaded.
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Files are processed locally in your browser — never uploaded to any server
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How it works (3 steps)
Upload a PDF
The target size is preset to 200KB; change it if your portal allows a different limit.
Automatic compression
Images are re-encoded page by page with a binary search on quality until the output fits under 200KB.
Download the result
Before/after sizes are shown. If 200KB is unreachable we report the minimum achievable size instead of outputting an oversized file.
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FAQ
Visa centres, exam registrations and government systems commonly use a 200KB limit to control storage. Scans and photo-based PDFs are usually far bigger and need recompression.
Try it ↑A 1–2 page document scan is usually fine; with many pages, sharpness drops — consider splitting out only the pages you need first.
Try it ↑We clearly report the minimum achievable size rather than silently producing an oversized file; use the Split tool to reduce page count first.
Try it ↑No — compression runs entirely in your browser.
Try it ↑No. Any change to a signed PDF (merging, compressing, watermarking…) invalidates the existing digital signature — that is the tamper-proof design of PDF signatures, not a limit of this site. Process first, then sign.
Try it ↑Yes — and you can verify it: the tool runs on open-source in-browser engines (pdf-lib, pdf.js, Tesseract OCR…) on your own device. Open DevTools → Network while processing and you will see no file upload requests.
Try it ↑Related tools
Compress PDF to a Target Size
Type a target like 1MB / 500KB / 200KB and get a PDF under that size — made for visa applications, job portals and email attachment limits
Split PDF
Four split modes: extract page ranges (like 1-3,5,7-9), split every N pages, split by bookmarks (outline chapters), or split by target file size
PDF to Images
Render each PDF page as a JPG or PNG image and download everything as one zip