Compress a PDF in your browser
Shrink PDFs right in your browser — text stays selectable when possible, free, no sign-up, and your documents are never uploaded to a server.
Drop a PDF — we’ll fit it under 4.20 MB
or click to choose — compressed on your device, never uploaded
Compressing in your browser…
Reading PDF…
Rollphy Pro lifts the file limit and unlocks batch mode.
PDFs mostly balloon for one reason: scanned pages stored as enormous images. Rollphy compresses your PDF on your own device, and it always tries the least destructive route first — re-encoding only the embedded images while the vector text, fonts and hyperlinks stay byte-for-byte intact, so the document remains selectable and searchable.
When image re-encoding alone can’t reach the target, the compressor falls back to re-rendering every page as a high-quality picture — the honest trade: the file gets dramatically smaller and looks the same, but text stops being selectable. The result screen always tells you which step your document used.
Everything runs inside your browser tab: contracts, tax forms and scanned passports never touch a server. No sign-up, no watermark, no page-count gymnastics on the free tier.
Frequently asked questions
- Is my PDF uploaded to a server?
- No. Compression runs locally in your browser tab. The document is decoded on your device — which is also why the tool works offline once the page has loaded.
- Why does my compressed PDF say “pages re-rendered as images”?
- When the document can only reach your target size by re-rendering, text and images become part of the page picture. It looks identical and opens everywhere, but it is no longer text-selectable — the result note tells you which of the two steps was used.
- Does compression keep my PDF’s quality?
- The search maximises quality inside your size target. Scanned documents usually drop 60–90% with no visible change; pure-text PDFs are already tiny and shrink little.
- Can it compress password-protected PDFs?
- No — encrypted files can’t be re-encoded without the password. Remove the password first (print → save as PDF is the quick way), then compress.