Compress a PDF to 100KB

Compress any PDF under 100KB in your browser — free, no sign-up. The exam-portal and application-form limit, met with the best quality that fits. Never uploaded.

Drop a PDF — we’ll fit it under 100 KB

or click to choose — compressed on your device, never uploaded

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100KB is the classic PDF upload barrier: government exam forms, school admission portals and scholarship applications draw the line here, and a scanned paper rarely fits with the settings it was saved with. This page compresses any PDF under 100KB entirely in your browser — the file never touches a server.

At this size only one route is certain: every page is re-rendered as a retina-quality picture at the exact resolution a 100KB budget can carry, so a certificate or one-page form stays crisp and readable where it counts. Multiply-page documents are handled too — the compressor scales pages down just enough to fit and tells you when it did.

If your document is mostly an embedded scan with light text, the first compression step often doesn’t need to re-render at all: it re-encodes the embedded image and keeps the text selectable. The result note always says which route your file took.

Frequently asked questions

How do I make a PDF under 100KB?
Drop it on this page. The compressor searches quality levels and only re-renders pages when image re-encoding can’t reach 100KB. The exact output size is shown before you download.
Will a 100KB PDF still look sharp?
For single-page forms and certificates, yes — the search keeps as much resolution as the byte budget allows. Long documents are the honest exception: 100KB divided across many pages has to lower the resolution.
Why can’t my text stay selectable at 100KB?
Mid-flow text is a kilobyte or two per paragraph — cheap. It’s the scanned page pictures that eat a 100KB budget. If re-encoding the pictures isn’t enough, the pages themselves must be re-rendered.