Compress PDF under typical email limits (without wrecking text)

Published

When Exchange or Gmail rejects 25–35 MB attachments, compression is the first benign lever.

Vector-heavy annual letters shrink dramatically; scan archives may not. Try compress once, measure MB, and only then resort to splitting across multiple emails.

Readable vs tiny

Extreme compression targets photos inside PDFs; pure text PDFs already approach minimum size.

LovePDF compress

Run Compress PDF and compare before/after.

Try this tool

Compress PDF

Short guides around searches that match this article — each links to a suggested PDF tool.