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PDFSamurai

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Compress PDF.

Shrink large PDF files so they fit email limits or load faster on the web — without leaving your browser.

  • Runs in your browser
  • Never uploaded to a server
  • GDPR compliant

Drop a PDF to compress

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Compression level

Compress PDF files privately

Large PDFs are the everyday friction of digital work. Email servers reject them, web forms time out, and they eat into the free storage of every cloud service. The honest fix is to shrink them — but most compression sites do so by uploading your whole document to a remote server first.

PDFSamurai compresses inside your browser. We re-encode the document with pdf-lib's object stream packing, strip unreferenced objects, and offer the result as a download. For text-heavy reports, expect 20–40% size reduction without any visible loss. For image-heavy files, results vary with the originating source.

Compression levels

  • Light — safe re-pack. Best for PDFs you will edit further.
  • Balanced — default. Strips unused objects and tightens streams.
  • Maximum — most aggressive object pruning. Still lossless, but slowest.

If you need smaller files still

True heavy compression of image-PDFs requires re-sampling the embedded images themselves. Our Pro tier adds that — see the pricing page for details.

Questions

Frequently
asked.

  • Image-heavy PDFs typically shrink 40–80%. Text-only PDFs see smaller gains because they’re already efficient.

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