Squeeze a PDF under 2 MB without touching its text.
Or choose a file. It is opened and rewritten on your device and never uploaded. Text is never touched — only the images inside.
Working on your device…
Your PDF is opened and rewritten in this browser. It is never uploaded, and nothing about it is stored.
Two megabytes is the allowance university applications, visa portals and immigration systems tend to give a supporting document. It is enough for a properly scanned multi-page file and not enough for one a scanner produced at its default settings.
The images inside are re-encoded at the best setting that fits under 2 MB, and nothing else in the document is altered. If it already fits, it comes back exactly as it went in.
Bank statements, letters and certificates are usually scanned, and immigration portals are strict about size.
Multi-page scanned transcripts routinely arrive at 15 to 30 MB from a university's own scanning office.
Photographed signature pages inside an otherwise text-only contract account for nearly all of its size.
Drag a file onto the page or choose one. It is opened on your device and never sent anywhere.
You see the original size, the target, and what the document came out at. Text, fonts and vector artwork are never touched — only the images inside are re-encoded.
If the target cannot be reached without destroying the document, you are told how small it can honestly go rather than handed a rasterised page.
Yes. Two megabytes is a reasonable budget for a handful of scanned pages, so the tool usually settles at a setting that keeps text in the scans sharp. Very long scanned documents are where it starts to get tight.
This page uses 2,097,152 — 2 × 1024 × 1024 — matching what your operating system shows. Portals almost always mean the same thing, but if one is strict about the decimal reading, Make PDF Fit lets you set an exact figure.
No pages, no text and no annotations. Images are replaced by smaller versions in the same positions; everything else is carried through, including transparency masks, which is what stops a logo turning into a black box.
You are told the smallest size the document reaches without rasterising its text, and pointed at splitting it. The tool will not flatten pages to hit a number, because a document that meets the size limit and can no longer be read is not a success.