# Make a PDF smaller

Shrink the file so it is easier to send. Compress a PDF and reduce its file size. Free to use. No sign-up. Your files never leave your device.

Use it here: https://pannapdf.app/make-smaller/

This is a free PDF compressor. Reduce PDF file size for email, WhatsApp, or an online form with an upload limit such as 100 KB, 200 KB or 1 MB. You see the size before and after, and can try a stronger setting if it is still too large.

Also known as: compress PDF, reduce PDF size, shrink PDF, PDF compressor, make PDF smaller, PDF size reducer.

## How it works

1. Choose the PDF you want to make smaller.
2. Choose how small: a little, much smaller, or as small as possible.
3. Press "Make it smaller". You will see the old and new size before you save.

## Questions people ask

### Why did my PDF not get smaller?

The first two choices shrink the photos inside a PDF. A PDF with no photos, or with scans and screenshots, may not shrink that way. "As small as possible" works on those, but it turns each page into a picture.

### Will it look worse?

"A little smaller" looks the same. The other two make photos softer.

## About Panna

Every tool runs inside the visitor's own browser. Files are never uploaded; they do not leave the phone or computer. There is no sign-up and no charge, and the site adds no watermark of its own to the files. The site can be shown in 19 languages: English, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati, Urdu, Kannada, Odia, Malayalam, Punjabi, Assamese, Maithili, Nepali, Sindhi, Konkani, Dogri, Sanskrit.

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