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Compress a PDF to fit under 2 MB for a job portal or an email attachment, without making it unreadable to a screening system. 2 MB is a comfortable budget for a CV, a portfolio document or a letter, and most files reach it without any visible loss at all. The measured size is shown at each step, and the tool reports the smallest result it can achieve rather than implying the target is always reachable. Nothing is uploaded, no account, no watermark.
Compress a PDF to 2 MB free — no sign-up, no watermark, no upload. Perfect for CVs, resumes and job-portal uploads. The text stays sharp and ATS-readable, and the measured size is shown before you download.
A text-only CV is 50 to 200 KB, so 2 MB is generous. One good photograph at 150 DPI adds 100 to 200 KB. A scanned certificate adds a few hundred KB. A portfolio of twenty full-page images is the only case that will not fit, and the right answer there is a smaller selection rather than lower quality on all of them.
Because the size problem is usually one photograph at full camera resolution. A 4 MB phone photo is 12 megapixels, which is more than a printed page needs. Downsampling that one image typically takes a 4 MB CV under 2 MB with no visible change, and it is a two-minute job rather than a rebuild.
Open the compressed file, select all the text, copy it, and paste it into a plain text editor. If you get your full employment history as readable text, a parser will get it too. If you get fragments, the text was rasterised and the CV is not machine-readable — which is the failure that gets a CV rejected before a human sees it.
Keep the full-quality CV for interviews and for anyone who will read it closely, and a compressed version for portals with a cap. The filename should say which is which — name-role.pdf and name-role-portal.pdf — so a week later you are not uploading the wrong one and finding out from a rejection email.
Yes, and this matters more than the size saving. Compressing a text document leaves the text as vector text, so a parser reads it exactly as before. What would break parsing is rasterising the text, and this tool never does that at any level. Check the size and read a paragraph; that is the whole test.
Most CVs are well under 2 MB and do not need it. You need to compress when the document has photographs, a scanned certificate, or a portfolio of images — a text-only CV is usually 50 to 200 KB. Check the actual size before doing work you do not need to do.
Then it will not, and the tool reports the size it reached. At 2 MB you would need an unusual document — a portfolio of high-resolution photographs, or a long scan. The options are to lower the image resolution, drop colour, or split the document, and the first two are usually enough.
No. Images are downsampled and re-encoded, not removed. A photograph stays a photograph and a certificate stays legible. If an image is not worth its size — a decorative banner, a duplicate logo — remove it deliberately rather than hoping the compressor decides to.
The generic compressor, with a target rather than a fixed cap, is the right tool for email. This page is for a hard limit at 2 MB where you need a definite answer, and where the result needs to be readable by a machine as well as a person.
Yes. The document structure is untouched; only the encoding of images and streams changes. Page count, page size, bookmarks and links are all preserved, and the text layer is unaffected.
Yes, and 2 MB is genuinely tight for a portfolio. A few good images at a sensible resolution fit; twenty full-page photographs do not. Choose the images that sell your work, place them at a resolution where they read, and accept that a portfolio PDF is a selection rather than a complete archive.
Yes. Free, no account, no watermark, and no upload. A CV contains your name, address, phone number, email and employment history, which is the definition of a document that should not be sent to a stranger's server.
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