How to Compress a PDF for Email (Free, Private)
Email providers usually cap attachments around 20–25 MB, and scanned PDFs blow past that fast. Compressing a PDF re-encodes its pages so the file gets dramatically smaller while staying readable — and with pdfbq it happens on your own device.
Open the Compress a PDF tool →Step by step
- Open Compress a PDF and drop your file. It is processed on your device and never uploaded.
- Adjust the options if you need to — quality, format or pages.
- Run and download the result. No account, no watermark, no waiting for an upload.
Why do it in your browser?
Because your file never leaves your device, browser-based tools are the safer choice for anything sensitive — contracts, IDs, personal photos and recordings. There are no size limits beyond your device’s memory, no daily quotas, and it keeps working offline after the first visit.