Compress PDF to 200 KB

Typical documents with a 200 KB limit

Admissions offices, visa services and employers often ask for supporting documents as separate PDFs of up to 200 KB each: degree certificates, mark sheets, ID cards, proof of address and signed declarations. Most of these are scans or phone photos turned into PDFs, which are usually far larger than 200 KB.

Keeping scans readable

A scanned page is a picture of the paper. The tool lowers the picture's resolution and quality step by step and stops at the best version that fits under 200 KB. For one or two pages that is usually still sharp enough to read every word, including small print and stamps.

Tips for better scans

• Scan or photograph in good, even light. Shadows and grey paper add detail that costs bytes.
• Crop to the page. Tables, desks and fingers around the document waste space.
• Use grayscale for black-and-white documents. Colour scans of plain text are much larger for no benefit.
• One document per file. If a form wants each certificate separately, split a combined scan with Split PDF.

Have the document as a photo instead of a PDF? Compress Image to 200 KB does the same for JPG files, or turn photos into a PDF with JPG to PDF.

Your documents stay private

Compression needs our server, so your PDF is uploaded over an encrypted connection, processed in a private temporary folder and deleted as soon as the result is ready.