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Make scanned PDFs smaller by rebuilding each page as an image. Your files stay on this device, and your originals are never changed.
Up to 10 PDFs · 20 MB and 50 pages each
Ready for local compression.
Questions, answered
No. BrowserFiles reads and rebuilds the PDFs you choose inside your browser. File bytes are not sent to a BrowserFiles server.
Each page is drawn as an image at the resolution you choose and saved as a JPEG, and a new PDF is built from those images. This works well for scans and photos of paper.
Text is no longer searchable or selectable, and links, form fields and bookmarks are removed, because every page becomes a picture. Your original file is not changed and can still be downloaded from the list.
PDFs made of text, like exported documents, are usually already compact. Turning their pages into images can make them larger. BrowserFiles tells you when there is no useful reduction and does not offer the larger file.
Yes. Enter a target and up to three passes step down to smaller settings. If the target cannot be met, you get the smallest attempt with its real size, labelled as missing the target.
Password-protected, fillable and digitally signed PDFs are refused, as are damaged files. Each PDF can be up to 20 MB and 50 pages, and up to 10 PDFs can be compressed in one batch.
Yes, after this page and its PDF tools have been cached on a first visit. The page shows Offline ready only once that setup completes.