Why does a PDF become so heavy?
A PDF's weight comes mainly from high-resolution images, embedded fonts and graphic elements. A scanned document, for example, contains a full-resolution image for every page, which can quickly reach several dozen megabytes.
Compression optimizes these images and removes unnecessary data, without touching the text or the structure of the document.
Compress a PDF in 3 steps
- 1Upload your PDF file by dragging it into the drop zone.
- 2Let MediaForge automatically optimize the images and structure.
- 3Download your lighter PDF, ready to share.
The file is automatically deleted from our servers after 1 hour: your privacy is guaranteed.
Keep the quality while reducing the size
Good compression is about balance: reducing the size without making text blurry or images pixelated. For a document meant to be read on screen or sent by email, standard compression is more than enough.
For a document to be printed in high quality, favor light compression to preserve the sharpness of the images.