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Compress PDF to 200KB

The 200KB cap is the workhorse of Indian document uploads — it is what SSC and state PSC portals typically allow per certificate, what universities set for marksheet uploads during admission, and what EPFO and bank portals often use for KYC documents. At 200KB a two-to-five page scan stays comfortably readable, which is why portals converged on it. This tool searches quality and scale until your file lands at or under the number, entirely in your browser.

  • No upload — files stay on your device
  • Works offline once loaded
  • Free forever, no signup, no watermark
Drop a PDF here, or tap to choose Contracts and statements are safe — nothing is uploaded

The output is guaranteed at or under this size whenever the page count allows it — the practical floor is roughly 10 KB per page.

70% keeps scans clearly readable; drop lower only when size matters more than crispness.

Honest trade-off: this compressor re-renders every page as a JPEG image. Scanned documents shrink dramatically, but the result has no selectable text — like a photocopy. If you need the text layer kept, don't use a rasterising compressor.

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From a free tool to your own software

Software for application portals and admissions offices

Every recruitment drive and admission season, thousands of applicants hit the same wall: a certificate scan rejected for being a few kilobytes over the limit. When your portal pushes that problem back onto the applicant, you lose completed applications and your helpdesk fills with calls. Purpose-built intake software accepts what people actually have and prepares it for storage and review on your side.

  • Admission portals that accept real-world scans

    Applicants upload phone scans as they are; the portal checks readability, resizes and stores each document to your spec, and flags only the ones a person genuinely needs to redo.

  • Recruitment application platforms

    Run a hiring drive from notification to shortlist, with document slots, fee tracking, admit cards and a verification screen that shows every certificate side by side.

  • Assisted filing desk software

    For centres that fill forms on behalf of customers: keep each customer's documents once, prepare them to each portal's size and format rules, and track which applications are pending.

  • Storage clean-up for scan archives

    Years of oversized scans slow backups and inflate storage bills. A batch job can recompress archived files to a sensible quality, keep originals where you need them and report the space saved.

Who we build this for: Colleges, universities, recruitment agencies, exam bodies and application-filing centres across India.

This tool runs entirely in your browser. The team that built it designs custom software for businesses and runs DigiSign, our own signage platform, in production.

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How to use this tool

  1. Add the PDF

    Drop your certificate or marksheet scan in — the current size appears instantly, read on your device.

  2. Confirm the 200KB target

    The target is preset to 200KB; adjust it if your portal quotes a different figure — many admission portals use 250KB or 300KB.

  3. Compress and download

    The search stops at the best quality that fits under 200KB and reports the exact achieved size before you download.

Questions people ask

Which portals use the 200KB limit?

It is the most common per-document cap: SSC document verification uploads, several state PSC and police recruitment portals, university admission portals for marksheets and migration certificates, and many bank KYC upload pages. Always read the slot's note — the same portal often mixes 100KB, 200KB and 500KB slots.

How many pages fit readably in 200KB?

Around five to eight scanned pages stay clearly legible, since the practical floor is about 10KB per page and comfortable quality sits near 25–40KB per page. A single-page certificate at 200KB comes out looking nearly untouched.

My scan is 3MB — will it really reach 200KB?

Almost certainly, if it is a few pages. Phone-scanned PDFs are enormous because they store photos at camera resolution; re-rendering at document resolution routinely takes a 3MB two-page scan under 200KB while staying sharp.

Should I compress each certificate separately or one combined file?

Match the portal: if it has one slot per document, compress each file to the slot's cap separately. Combining certificates into one PDF and squeezing the bundle under a per-document cap wastes quality and often gets rejected for containing the wrong pages.

Is my marksheet uploaded to compress it?

No — every render pass happens inside your browser. Marksheets and ID documents are precisely the files you should keep off strangers' servers, and this tool has no upload endpoint at all.

Why did the tool refuse and say my file is mostly text?

If your PDF is born-digital text (not a scan), re-rendering it as images can make it bigger, and the tool tells you instead of delivering a worse file. Text PDFs of a few pages are usually already under 200KB.

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Who makes these tools

Free because it costs us nothing to run: your browser does the work, not our servers. Made by Dynamb Technologies — we build software for businesses.