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Add your PDF to the compressor and choose “High quality” or “Balanced” from the available presets. These options optimize internal data, slightly downsample high-DPI images, and remove invisible metadata while maintaining the document’s visual quality for screen and print. If you need to make changes before compression, you can edit the PDF first.

You can compress files up to 100 MB without an account. Free users can process PDFs up to 200 MB. In addition, Pro subscribers can compress files up to 1 GB per task, including high-resolution design files, scanned archives, and technical drawings.

PDF Awesome provides four compression options: High quality, Balanced, Strong, and Maximum. High quality makes light optimizations for near-original quality, Balanced works for most files, Strong provides greater size reduction with some quality trade-off, and Maximum applies more aggressive image optimization for the smallest output. A live size estimate on the board shows the expected result for each preset.

No. Compression optimizes only the raster images in the document, while vector text and fonts remain unchanged. Font embedding, glyph shapes, and text content are preserved. So you can still extract text from the compressed PDF.

Yes. Since scanned PDFs primarily contain image data, they can often be reduced substantially with compression. With the Balanced preset, scanned files can often become 60–80% smaller while maintaining visual quality at normal screen and print sizes.

Yes. Digital signatures are preserved during compression because they are stored separately from the image data being optimized. Signed and certified PDFs retain their signature validity in the compressed output.

Yes. PDF Awesome uses 256-bit SSL encryption for uploads, processes files on isolated servers, and automatically deletes them within 60 minutes. The service is GDPR compliant and built aligned with ISO/IEC 27001 security principles, with no employee or third party accessing your content. You can also use Protect if you need to secure a PDF.

Yes. Upload multiple PDFs to the board and process them together in a single task, then download the results as one ZIP file. The limit is 2 files without an account, 5 with a free account, and 50 with Pro. A batch counts as one task toward your daily limit, which is 10 tasks per day for free accounts.

No. PDF compression reduces the file size without deleting pages or changing their order. The compressed PDF retains the original page count and document structure.

Yes. After downloading the compressed PDF, you can use split to divide it by page range or separate it into individual sections. This lets you create separate PDF files from the compressed document.