Compress a PDF to 2 MB
Hit the exact size a portal demands — best possible quality for scanned documents, entirely in your browser.
Optimized for scanned documents: each page is re-rendered as an image. Pages stay clearly readable, but selectable text is not preserved.
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How it works
- 1Drop your PDF — everything processes locally in your browser, nothing is uploaded anywhere.
- 2We compress the file toward 2MB, targeting the embedded images first since they're almost always what makes a PDF heavy, not the text.
- 3Download your compressed PDF and confirm it opens correctly before submitting.
When you need this
Online applications, concours registrations, government portals and e-mail attachments often cap PDF uploads at a strict size. FileNorm compresses scanned documents to fit under that limit while keeping pages readable, so your dossier is accepted the first time.
Frequently asked questions
- Why would I need to compress to exactly 2MB?
- 2MB is one of the most common upload limits on job portals, visa application systems, and email attachment caps — a looser limit than 500KB or 1MB, so quality usually stays very close to the original.
- Will my PDF still look good at 2MB?
- In almost all cases, yes — 2MB is generous enough that compression is rarely visible, even for photo-heavy or scanned multi-page documents.
- Does this work for scanned documents, not just digital PDFs?
- Yes — scanned PDFs are page images under the hood, and those compress the same way as any other image content in the file.
- Is there a limit to how many pages I can compress at once?
- No hard limit — the whole PDF compresses in one pass, and the 2MB target applies to the complete file.
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