Compress PDF
Reduce file size while keeping quality — free, private in-browser.
Optimal balance between file size reduction and high document readability. Good for 95% of use cases.
Maximum compression. Ideal for strict portal upload limits (SSC, UPSC, IBPS under 100KB/200KB).
Light compression. Strips unnecessary metadata while maintaining lossless original image fidelity.
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Shrink a PDF to a portal limit
The file opens in the tab — choose Light, Balanced or Extreme and watch the size readout drop until it fits the KB cap your form demands.
Presets you can feel
Light trims a little, Balanced handles ordinary documents, Extreme is for heavy scans. The grayscale switch removes colour data that scanned forms never need.
Built around the 100 KB / 200 KB rule
Indian portals love round numbers like 100 KB or 200 KB. Set the target from the form's instruction page, compress, and confirm the size before uploading.
Works on old machines too
Compression runs on the device, so even a low-RAM phone can handle a normal application PDF. A laptop simply finishes faster on very large files.
One tab, no setup
Open the page, press the button. Nothing to install also means no admin rights are needed on a cyber-café computer.
Quality stays readable
Text pages keep crisp text; scanned pages keep enough detail for photographs of marksheets. If Extreme looks too soft, step back to Balanced — the original file is never overwritten.
When to compress a PDF with Vytra Compress
Almost every government and banking portal caps uploads — 100 KB, 200 KB, 1 MB. Vytra Compress reduces a PDF inside your browser with three presets: Light for files that are close to the limit, Balanced for ordinary documents, and Extreme for scanned files that are far over. The grayscale toggle helps most with scanned marksheets and handwritten papers, where colour adds size but no information. The live size readout updates as you change presets, so you can stop as soon as the file drops under the portal's cap.
Compression works by re-encoding the images inside the PDF at lower resolution while keeping the text layer intact, which is why scanned documents shrink far more than text documents. If a file barely moves, it is already near the minimum for its content — reduce the pages themselves with Split instead of pushing quality lower. You can switch presets and preview repeatedly; the original file on your device is never modified until you save the copy.
Common problems and how to fix them
- Barely any reduction — the file is probably text-based and already near its minimum; try Extreme, then grayscale.
- A scanned document stays large — scans are images; grayscale plus Extreme usually cuts them by 60-80%.
- Output looks blurry — use Light instead of Extreme when the document must stay clearly readable.
- Still over the limit — extract only the required pages with Split first, then compress.
A quick example
A 2.1 MB scanned marksheet must go under 200 KB. Choose Extreme, tick grayscale, wait for the readout to settle under 200 KB, save, and confirm the size in your file manager before uploading.
If the portal rejects the file again afterwards, read its instruction page once more — some forms cap page count as well as size, and the fix then is Split, not a lower preset.