Compress PDF to 500 KB
Shrink a PDF to 500 KB Choose a PDF file Target size 500 KB (fixed on this page — aims for about 475 KB, so portals that count 1 KB as 1,000 bytes still accept it) Compress to 500 KB Download Compressed PDF No file selected yet. Pick a PDF and press the button — this page is fixed at 500 KB, the cap used by many exam, job and visa portals. Compression happens entirely in your browser — your file is never uploaded to a server. Important note: this compressor works best on image-heavy and scanned PDFs. Text-based PDFs may not shrink much, and in this method every page's text is converted to an image, so the text will no longer be selectable or searchable in the compressed file. Five hundred kilobytes is the size limit you meet all over the everyday web. Exam application portals, job application forms, visa and university admission uploads, scholarship forms and government service sites very often reject any PDF above 500 KB, and a scanned certificate or a phone p...