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Compress PDF to under 1MB

For email attachments and upload limits — automatic quality search, text stays sharp.

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Getting under 1MB

  1. Drop your PDF — the 1 MB target is preselected.
  2. Click Compress. Images are re-encoded at sensible resolution; text and vectors are untouched.
  3. Download — you'll see the before/after sizes and the percentage saved.

1MB is usually the easy win

Unlike the brutal 100 KB portals, a 1 MB ceiling leaves room to keep documents looking essentially identical. The oversized PDFs that miss it are almost always carrying camera-resolution images — 4000-pixel photos displayed three inches wide. Scaling those to what the page actually shows routinely cuts 80–95% of the file with no visible change, no rasterizing, and no watermark.

Frequently asked questions

How do I get a PDF under 1MB?

Drop it above — the 1 MB target is preselected. Click Compress and Sleek PDF finds the best quality that fits. At 1 MB most multi-page documents keep excellent visual quality.

What kinds of files need the 1MB limit?

Email attachment policies, LMS and course-portal uploads, tender/procurement systems, and CMS media limits. 1 MB is the roomiest of the common ceilings — usually reachable without any visible quality loss.

My PDF is 50MB of scanned pages. Realistic?

Often yes — high-DPI scans carry far more resolution than reading or printing needs. Re-encoding at sensible resolution regularly shrinks scan-heavy files 10–30×. If standard mode can't reach 1MB, Extreme mode will.

Is there a file size limit on what I can compress?

No imposed limit — processing happens on your device, bounded only by its memory. Above roughly 150MB you'll see a soft warning, and splitting first can help.