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Compress PDF under 500 KB

Aggressive but readable. For tight uploads — yours alone, in your browser.

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Getting a PDF under 500 KB

500 KB is the aggressive tier: small enough for tight upload forms and instant email, while still readable on screen and in print. fits. gets there by downsampling embedded photos and re-encoding them as JPEG at a modest quality level. Text and vector graphics never compress — they stay perfectly sharp — so the visible trade-off is confined to photographs, which take on a web-quality look.

Whether a given PDF can reach 500 KB depends on how much of it is imagery. A mostly-text document slips under easily; a file packed with full-page photos may bottom out higher, and fits. reports the real delivered size rather than pretending it hit the target. If you need an exact ceiling, the Custom chip lets you type the number and aims just below it.

Common questions (4)
How do you compress a PDF under 500 KB without ruining it?
We downsample embedded images and re-encode them as JPEG at modest quality (~78%). Text and vector graphics stay untouched — only photos shrink.
What if my PDF is mostly text?
Then it’s already small. fits. runs a lossless structural pass to dedupe streams and trim metadata. Typical savings: 5–20% with zero visual change.
Will the result look bad?
For PDFs dominated by photos: the photos will look like web-quality JPEGs, fine for reading and printing. For mixed PDFs: text stays sharp; the photos are the only thing that compresses visibly.
How is this different from online compressors?
Tools like Smallpdf and PDF24 upload your file to their servers, compress there, then download back. fits. does it in your browser — never sending your file anywhere.