Kitcroft
Compress PDF
Rebuild image-heavy pages at a size you choose. Preview the new weight, then save — the original never leaves the device.
Preparing the workbench…
How it works
Step 1
Choose a file
Drop a PDF. Page count and original size show immediately.
Step 2
Pick a profile
Strong, balanced, or keep-quality. Each profile caps pixel size and JPEG quality.
Step 3
Compress and save
Pages are redrawn locally. Download when the new size looks right.
Why this instead of a metered editor
Sejda’s free web tools stop after three tasks an hour and cap files at 50 MB or 200 pages. Every extra step — merge, then compress, then number — burns another task. Kitcroft runs compress pdf in this browser. There is no task meter and the file is not sent to a processing server. Ads in the reserved frames keep the tools free.
Questions
- Why did a text PDF not shrink much?
- Compression rasterizes pages so scans and photo PDFs drop a lot. A lean vector/text file is already small; rasterizing it can even grow the file. Use Balanced only on image-heavy documents.
- Is this the same as Sejda compress?
- Sejda compresses on a server and meters free tasks. Kitcroft compresses in the tab. Quality sliders are honest: you trade sharpness for bytes.