Compress PDF to 500 KB
Drop your PDF; Yeti shrinks the images step by step until the file is under 500 KB, without touching the text.
How to compress a PDF to 500 KB
Yeti first re-encodes the photos and scans in your PDF lightly; if the file is still over 500 KB, 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 500 KB?
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 500 KB 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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