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Compress a PDF to fit under 200 KB for an SSC, UPSC, banking or university application. That is enough for several pages of type or a couple of scanned pages at a readable resolution, which covers most of the forms these portals ask for. The measured size is shown at each step, and the tool tells you when the target is out of reach rather than producing an unreadable file. Nothing is uploaded, no account, and no watermark.
Compress a PDF to 200 KB free — no sign-up, no watermark, no upload. The measured size is shown at each step, and text stays sharp. Ideal for SSC, UPSC, banking and university exam form uploads.
Several pages of text, or one to two scanned pages at a readable resolution, comfortably. It is the right target for an application form with a signature and a photograph, and the wrong target for a scanned booklet. Look at what the portal asks for — usually one or two pages — and compress exactly that.
Strip metadata, then downsample images, then drop colour, then re-encode. Text is never rasterised and never re-encoded below its own optimal setting. The result is a form that is smaller and still perfectly readable, which is the only acceptable outcome for something a person will assess.
Three reasons that are not the file size. A password or owner password set on the document, a file type the portal does not accept despite the extension, or metadata that pushes the transmitted size over the cap even though the file on disk is under it. Flatten the file to remove the first, and strip metadata for the third.
Compress each document to the same target and export as a batch, keeping the filenames distinct and meaningful. Thirty applications with filenames like document1.pdf is a filing problem waiting to happen, and the ten seconds spent naming them properly is worth more than the compression settings are.
Usually. A form that is mostly text, or text with a signature image, will be well under 200 KB. A form containing a full-page colour photograph of an ID is the hard case — that alone can be 200 KB at a reasonable resolution. Check what the form actually contains before assuming.
Yes. Text is never converted to an image; it stays vector text and is re-encoded with a stronger compression setting. The apparent quality of the text depends only on the zoom level, which is a property of every PDF.
The tool says so, with the size it reached. Then the choices are yours: reduce the resolution further, drop colour, or export only the pages the form needs. A file that fits but cannot be read is a worse outcome than a file that is refused, because the second is obvious and the first is discovered later.
No. Page count is a content decision. If a form only needs page two, export page two with Split PDF first, and then compress — which is a better result than any tool that quietly discards a page to hit a number.
Portal infrastructure, not the document. An application system handling thousands of simultaneous uploads is sized around small files, and a 200 KB cap is a symptom of that. Nothing about your document requires it, which is why the useful answer is to fit the cap rather than to argue with it.
Yes, as long as it is not downsampled aggressively. Signatures and stamps are the highest-contrast elements in a document and survive compression better than body text, which is the opposite of what people expect. Zoom in the preview to confirm, and avoid the most aggressive resolution setting.
Yes, each independently to the same 200 KB target, downloaded together as a ZIP. Each file's result is reported separately, so one that cannot reach the target is visible rather than hidden in the batch.
Yes. Free, no account, no watermark and no upload. An application containing your date of birth, photograph and signature number is precisely the file that should never be sent to a server.
More optional — all free, no upload.