Compress PDF to 200KB

About the Compress PDF to 200KB

Add a PDF and get it back under 200 KB: at most 200,000 bytes, with the sharpest settings that fit. The tool tries the settings for you — first lossless optimisation, then photos and scans re-encoded at lower quality and resolution — while text, fonts and drawings stay as they are, so the text can still be selected and searched. If even the strongest settings are not enough, it shows why and offers page images as a last step.

IGNOU’s admission form, for example, takes qualification, experience and category certificates of less than 200 KB. Everything runs in your browser: the PDF is never uploaded. Without a pass, the free preview shows the size your PDF reaches and compares up to 3 of its pages with your original, watermarked; the PDF downloads with a pass, or after unlocking this result.

Where 200 KB is the limit

Check the instructions of your own form: limits change from one round to the next.

• IGNOU admission qualification, experience and category certificates: less than 200 KB, JPG or PDF (IGNOU online admission)

What fits in 200 KB

• Text PDFs saved from Word or a browser are mostly fonts and text, which this tool keeps exactly. If they alone are well over 200 KB, the tool says so before it starts; sending only the pages that are asked for usually works better.
• Scans and photos shrink a lot: the search lowers their JPEG quality and resolution step by step, keeping quality at 54% or more until images are at about 100 DPI.
• Readability: at 150 DPI or more pages are comfortable to read and fine to print; below about 100 DPI small print gets hard to read, and the result says so.
• Greyscale helps black-and-white documents most: certificates, forms, letters and ID scans.

200 KB: 200,000 or 204,800 bytes?

Forms differ: some count 1 KB as 1,000 bytes, others as 1,024. The file is made at most 200,000 bytes, so it is under 200 KB either way — and IGNOU’s “less than 200 KB” is met too unless the file is exactly 200,000 bytes long, which the search makes very unlikely. Windows shows 200,000 bytes as about 195 KB.

Other sizes

Compress PDF to Size takes any limit, with buttons for 100 KB, 200 KB, 300 KB, 500 KB, 1 MB and 2 MB. Pages for other sizes: 300 KB · 500 KB. For a photo instead of a PDF, use Compress Image to 200KB.

How this compares

• Runs on your device: your browser tries every setting itself; the PDF is never uploaded.
• See it before you pay: the free preview shows the size your PDF reaches and compares up to 3 of its pages with your original, with a MySmartCoPilot watermark; the PDF you download with a pass, or after unlocking it, holds only your own pages.
• You don’t need an account: no sign-up, no email address and nothing to install.

Limitations

• Password-protected PDFs must be unlocked first with Unlock PDF. A digitally signed PDF loses its signature when it is changed.
• Page images, the last step, remove selectable text, links and form fields; the original file is never changed.
• Files up to 200 MB. The first use downloads the PDF engines, so it needs an internet connection once.

Privacy

Everything happens in your browser. What you enter or open here is not uploaded or stored by MySmartCoPilot.