Compress PDF to 1 MB
Drop your PDF; Yeti shrinks the images step by step until the file is under 1 MB, without touching the text.
How to compress a PDF to 1 MB
Yeti first re-encodes the photos and scans in your PDF lightly; if the file is still over 1 MB, it steps up the compression and picks the lightest result that fits. Text, fonts and line art stay exactly as they are, so lettering stays sharp.
Scans of a few pages and PDFs with photos usually fit this limit and stay sharp. For long scanned documents, the grayscale option saves extra space; if the file is still too big, split it into parts.
To stay safely under the limit, 1 KB counts as 1000 bytes: the result fits whether the form counts 1000 or 1024 bytes per KB.
Frequently asked questions
What if the PDF can't get under 1 MB?
Yeti gives you the smallest file it can reach and shows its size. If the document is mostly text and fonts, there are few images to shrink; removing pages or splitting the file helps in that case.
Will the text get blurry?
No. Only images are re-encoded; text, fonts and lines stay as they are. In scanned documents the page itself is an image, so the text shrinks along with it; zoom in on the result before you send it.
Can I compress several PDFs at once?
Yes. Each file is brought under 1 MB on its own; download the results one by one or as a ZIP.
Is my file uploaded to a server?
No. Compression runs entirely in your browser; your file never leaves your device.
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