Free PDF Compressor

Images can bloat PDF files significantly, making them harder to open, store or share. Depending on what you intend to do with your PDF files, high quality images may not be essential. Free PDF Compressor can reduce a document's resolution, while maintaining the quality within an acceptable level. The application is capable of optimizing PDF documents for screen viewing, printing, prepress and for other operations. The best part is that it takes only a few clicks to prepare and start a compression process.

Free PDF Compressor is distributed as a freeware application, as the name clearly implies. It provides support for all popular Windows versions and it can be installed in a matter of seconds. The application is lightweight, so it doesn't have any significant impact on a computer's performance.

Preparing a compression process should not take more than a few seconds. All you have to do is specify an input file and an output path, select a compression method and click a button to start the operation. The application provides several predefined compression methods, which are accompanied by short descriptions.

Each compression method will set a different resolution for your target PDF file. For example, if you choose the screen viewing mode, the file will have a low resolution, with images at 72 dpi. You can also compress the loaded PDF file to eBook standard or to printing or prepress quality. The actual compression process may take some time with large documents, because the application will process each page one by one. When the compression is complete, you will notice a significant file size reduction.