Compress a PDF to 200 KB
The size is already set to 200 KB. Choose your PDF and it is made 200 KB or smaller on your device, or the page tells you the smallest size it could reach.
The file will be at or under this size, or the tool shows the smallest it can reach.
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How to compress a PDF to 200 KB
Choose your file, or drop it on the box above.
Leave the size at 200 KB, then select Compress PDF.
Download the file, then upload it to your form.
For forms that ask for 200 KB or less
Online application forms for government services, exams and jobs set a size limit for each document. When the form's upload box says a PDF must be 200 KB or less, a file this page makes to fit is at or under 200,000 bytes. That fits the limit whether the form counts 200 KB as 200,000 or 204,800 bytes.
Check the form's own instructions for its size limit and its file type before you upload.
If your file cannot reach 200 KB
To reach the size, photos and scans in the file are made lighter, a little at a time. Text, drawings and form fields are not changed, so a long document of text may not get down to 200 KB. The page then says so plainly and shows the smallest size it reached, which you can still download.
For a scanned document, scanning it again at a lower resolution, or in black and white, usually makes a much smaller file. If the form takes several files, Split PDF can make one file of each part.
Your file never leaves your device
Compression runs in your browser with qpdf, an open-source PDF library, and your browser's own image encoder. No file, page or file name is sent to us or to anyone else.