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Compress Images in PDF

Downsample and recompress embedded images to shrink image-heavy documents.

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A conversion provider is required

Compress Images in PDF depends on native engines that cannot run in a browser or on the edge runtime. The provider layer is wired and ready — connect any provider below and this tool activates immediately with automatic fallback between them.

  • CloudConvert

    CLOUDCONVERT_API_KEY

    Covers the full Office, image, e-book and OCR matrix through hosted LibreOffice, Ghostscript, ImageMagick and Tesseract workers.

    Engines: LibreOffice · Ghostscript · ImageMagick · Poppler · Tesseract OCR · Calibre

  • Adobe PDF Services

    ADOBE_PDF_CLIENT_SECRET

    Highest fidelity for Office round-trips and OCR. Used first for document conversions when credentials are present.

    Engines: Adobe PDF Services

  • Self-hosted worker

    PDF_WORKER_URL

    Point the platform at your own container running LibreOffice, Ghostscript, qpdf and Tesseract for unlimited on-premise processing.

    Engines: LibreOffice · Ghostscript · qpdf · PDFium · Tesseract OCR

How Compress Images in PDF works

  1. 1

    Add your file by dragging them onto the drop zone or picking them from your device.

  2. 2

    Adjust the options on the right until the result matches what you need.

  3. 3

    Press “Run Compress Images in PDF”. Processing happens on your own machine, so speed depends only on your hardware.

  4. 4

    Download the result individually or as a ZIP archive, then run the tool again with new files.

Good to know

  • Accepted input: application/pdf
  • Maximum file size: 200 MB per file
  • One file at a time
  • Nothing is stored, logged, or transmitted

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