Compress a PDF to 100 KB
A hundred kilobytes is the tightest limit most forms ask for, and it is usually asked of a single page: a photograph, a signature, a one-page certificate. Set the size here and the file is worked down to it inside this browser.
- Nothing is uploaded. The file is opened and rewritten by your own browser.
- Page one is drawn on screen before you save, so you can see what the size cost.
- No account, no watermark, no queue.
Why the limit is usually 100 KB
A hundred kilobytes is what a form asks for when it expects one page rather than a document. University admission portals, examination boards and bank know-your-customer forms all use it, and they use it because a scanned photograph at that size is still recognisable while a hundred thousand of them still fit on a modest server.
The limit is almost always enforced at the moment of upload, which is the worst moment to find out about it. There is no warning while you fill the form, and no partial credit for being close. A file of 104 KB is refused exactly as firmly as a file of ten megabytes.
What has to give at that size
A PDF made of text is small already. A PDF made of a photograph of text is not, and that is what a phone camera produces. Getting one down to a hundred kilobytes means drawing every page again at a lower resolution and storing it with more compression, so the question is never whether quality falls but whether what matters is still readable afterwards.
This tool searches for the answer instead of guessing at it. It tries a resolution and a quality, measures what came out, and moves on the two settings together until it finds the largest file that still fits under your number. The largest, not the smallest: somebody capped at 100 KB wants the most readable 100 KB there is.
Page one is then drawn on screen. If a registration number or a date of birth has gone soft, you will see it before you save rather than after somebody at the other end rejects the document.
If 100 KB turns out to be impossible
Some documents cannot reach it. A twelve-page colour scan has too much in it, and at some point the text stops being text and becomes grey noise. When that happens the tool says so, prints the smallest size it actually managed, and suggests splitting the file, because two acceptable pages beat one unreadable document.
It will never quietly hand back something over the limit and let the portal do the refusing.
Is my file uploaded anywhere?
No. The compression runs inside your browser tab, on your own machine. The file never crosses the network, which is also why it works with no account and no waiting.
Will the text still be selectable afterwards?
No. Reaching a size this small means redrawing each page as a picture, so the result is an image of your document rather than text. If you need the text back, run the result through OCR.
What if my PDF is already under 100 KB?
It is handed straight back, untouched, and the tool says so. Compressing a file that already fits only spends quality you had no reason to spend.
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