Compress PDF
Reduce PDF file size. 35 products support this exact task: 8 absolutely free, 18 free with limits, 4 paid or trial, and 5 offline or self-hosted. The inventory records PDF -> compressed PDF; PDF -> optimized PDF; image-based PDF -> compressed PDF.
35 products recorded · 26 free choices · 7 offline or self-hosted choices. Inventory checked 2026-10-23.
What the inventory records
- Exact direction
- PDF -> compressed PDF; PDF -> optimized PDF; image-based PDF -> compressed PDF; PDF -> lossless-image PDF/A; PDFs -> compressed PDFs
- Named as
- Compress PDF; Compress; Hyper-Compression; PDF Compression; Optimization Compression; Brotli compression
- Evidence
- 44 matching inventory rows · 14 confirmed · 21 partly confirmed
- Last checked
- 2026-10-23
This page is about this exact operation only, not a general PDF converter. Rows with unresolved confidence are not counted as support.
Absolutely free
8 products
No payment is needed to use the tool as recorded.
- Product record
FPDI
Setasign GmbH & Co. KG
- Platform and processing
- Self-hosted · Runs locally
- Account
- Account requirement not verified
- Price signal
- Open source
- Evidence
- Confirmed
- Product record
OCRmyPDF
James R. Barlow
- Platform and processing
- Windows · macOS · Linux · Self-hosted · Runs locally
- Account
- No account needed
- Price signal
- Open source
- Evidence
- Confirmed
- Product record
PDF24
geek Software GmbH
- Platform and processing
- Web · Windows · Vendor cloud
- Account
- No account needed
- Price signal
- Free
- Evidence
- Partly confirmed
- Product record
PDFgear
PDF GEAR TECH PTE. LTD.
- Platform and processing
- Windows · macOS · iOS · Android · Web · Runs locally
- Account
- No account needed
- Price signal
- Free
- Evidence
- Partly confirmed
- Product record
pdftk-java
Marc Vinyals
- Platform and processing
- Windows · macOS · Linux · Self-hosted · Runs locally
- Account
- No account needed
- Price signal
- Open source
- Evidence
- Partly confirmed
- Product record
PyMuPDF
Artifex Software, Inc.
- Platform and processing
- Windows · macOS · Linux · Runs locally
- Account
- No account needed
- Price signal
- Open source
- Evidence
- Partly confirmed
- Product record
SnackPDF
Vendor not listed
- Platform and processing
- Web · Runs locally
- Account
- No account needed
- Price signal
- Free
- Evidence
- Confirmed
- Product record
SumatraPDF
Krzysztof Kowalczyk
- Platform and processing
- Windows · Runs locally
- Account
- No account needed
- Price signal
- Open source
- Evidence
- Confirmed
Free with limits
18 products
There is an indefinite free way to use it, usually with limits.
- Product record
Adobe Acrobat
Vendor not listed
- Platform and processing
- Web · Windows · macOS · Vendor cloud
- Account
- No account needed
- Price signal
- Free · paid from £14.99 a month
- Evidence
- Partly confirmed
- Product record
AvePDF
Orpalis Imaging SAS
- Platform and processing
- Web · Vendor cloud
- Account
- No account needed
- Price signal
- Free · paid from £51.00 a year
- Evidence
- Confirmed
- Product record
iLovePDF
Vendor not listed
- Platform and processing
- Web · Windows · macOS · iOS · Android · API · Vendor cloud
- Account
- No account needed
- Price signal
- Free · paid from £5.00 a month
- Evidence
- Partly confirmed
- Product record
PDF Candy
Icecream Apps Limited
- Platform and processing
- Web · Windows · Vendor cloud
- Account
- No account needed
- Price signal
- Free · paid from £4.00 a month
- Evidence
- Partly confirmed
- Product record
PDF Expert
Readdle Limited
- Platform and processing
- macOS · iOS · Runs locally
- Account
- Account requirement not verified
- Price signal
- Free · paid from £72.99 a year
- Evidence
- Partly confirmed
- Product record
PDF2Go
QaamGo Web GmbH
- Platform and processing
- Web · Windows · macOS · Linux · Vendor cloud
- Account
- No account needed
- Price signal
- Free · paid from £6.85 a month
- Evidence
- Partly confirmed
- Product record
PDFescape
7270356 Canada Inc. (Avanquest Software)
- Platform and processing
- Web · Windows · Vendor cloud
- Account
- No account needed
- Price signal
- Free · paid from £4.44 a month
- Evidence
- Partly confirmed
- Product record
pdfRest
Datalogics, Inc.
- Platform and processing
- API · Self-hosted · Vendor cloud
- Account
- Account requirement not verified
- Price signal
- Free · paid from £7.48 a month
- Evidence
- Partly confirmed
- Product record
PDFsam
Sober Lemur S.r.l.
- Platform and processing
- Windows · macOS · Linux · Runs locally
- Account
- No account needed
- Price signal
- Free · paid from £29.00 a year
- Evidence
- Partly confirmed
- Product record
Prince
YesLogic Pty. Ltd.
- Platform and processing
- Windows · macOS · Linux · Self-hosted · Runs locally
- Account
- No account needed
- Price signal
- Free tier
- Evidence
- Partly confirmed
- Product record
Sejda
Sejda BV
- Platform and processing
- Web · Windows · macOS · Linux · Vendor cloud
- Account
- No account needed
- Price signal
- Free · paid from £5.00
- Evidence
- Partly confirmed
- Product record
Smallpdf
Smallpdf AG
- Platform and processing
- Web · Windows · iOS · Android · Vendor cloud
- Account
- No account needed
- Price signal
- Free · paid from £6.75 a month
- Evidence
- Partly confirmed
- Product record
Soda PDF
Avanquest Software SAS
- Platform and processing
- Web · Windows · Varies by edition
- Account
- Account requirement not verified
- Price signal
- Paid
- Evidence
- Confirmed
- Product record
Spire.PDF
e-iceblue Corporation
- Platform and processing
- Windows · Linux · macOS · Self-hosted · Runs locally
- Account
- Account requirement not verified
- Price signal
- Paid
- Evidence
- Confirmed
- Product record
Stirling PDF
Stirling PDF, Inc.
- Platform and processing
- Web · Windows · macOS · Linux · API · Self-hosted · Varies by edition
- Account
- No account needed
- Price signal
- Free · paid from £73.43 a month
- Evidence
- Partly confirmed
- Product record
Syncfusion PDF
Syncfusion, Inc.
- Platform and processing
- Windows · macOS · Linux · Self-hosted · Web · Runs locally
- Account
- Account required
- Price signal
- From £889.30 a year
- Evidence
- Confirmed
- Product record
Wondershare PDFelement
Wondershare Technology Group Co., Limited
- Platform and processing
- Web · Windows · macOS · iOS · Android · Vendor cloud
- Account
- Account requirement not verified
- Price signal
- Free · paid from £59.33 a year
- Evidence
- Partly confirmed
- Product record
Xodo
Apryse
- Platform and processing
- Web · Windows · macOS · Linux · iOS · Android · Varies by edition
- Account
- Account requirement not verified
- Price signal
- Free · paid from £6.05 a month
- Evidence
- Confirmed
Paid or trial
4 products
The record shows a paid product, with or without a trial.
- Product record
Foxit PDF Editor
Vendor not listed
- Platform and processing
- Windows · macOS · Web · iOS · Android · API · Varies by edition
- Account
- No account needed
- Price signal
- From £8.15 a month
- Evidence
- Partly confirmed
- Product record
Nutrient
Nutrient
- Platform and processing
- Web · macOS · iOS · Android · API · Self-hosted · Windows · Linux · Varies by edition
- Account
- Account required
- Price signal
- Paid
- Evidence
- Confirmed
- Product record
Pdftools SDK
PDF Tools AG, Steinstrasse 21, 8003 Zurich, Switzerland
- Platform and processing
- Windows · Linux · macOS · Self-hosted · Runs locally
- Account
- Account requirement not verified
- Price signal
- Paid
- Evidence
- Partly confirmed
- Product record
Power PDF
Tungsten Automation Corporation
- Platform and processing
- Web · Windows · macOS · iOS · Android · Varies by edition
- Account
- Account requirement not verified
- Price signal
- From £95.00
- Evidence
- Partly confirmed
Offline or self-hosted
5 products
Paid products that run locally or can be self-hosted. Free and free-tier local products stay in their price tier above.
- Product record
Adobe PDF Library
Datalogics
- Platform and processing
- Windows · Linux · macOS · Self-hosted · Runs locally
- Account
- Account requirement not verified
- Price signal
- From £4,489.17 a year
- Evidence
- Confirmed
- Product record
Foxit PDF SDK
Foxit Software Incorporated
- Platform and processing
- Windows · macOS · Linux · iOS · Android · Web · Self-hosted · Runs locally
- Account
- Account requirement not verified
- Price signal
- Paid
- Evidence
- Confirmed
- Product record
IronPDF
Iron Software
- Platform and processing
- Windows · macOS · Linux · Self-hosted · Runs locally
- Account
- No account needed
- Price signal
- From £740.96
- Evidence
- Confirmed
- Product record
LEADTOOLS PDF SDK
Apryse
- Platform and processing
- Windows · Linux · macOS · Android · iOS · Web · Self-hosted · Runs locally
- Account
- No account needed
- Price signal
- Paid
- Evidence
- Confirmed
- Product record
PDF-XChange Core API SDK
PDF-XChange Co Ltd
- Platform and processing
- Windows · Runs locally
- Account
- Account requirement not verified
- Price signal
- Paid
- Evidence
- Partly confirmed
What this page counts
The inventory has 44 matching rows for this operation. 14 products have confirmed evidence and 21 have partly confirmed evidence; unresolved rows are excluded. A product appears only when the inventory names this exact operation. A vendor that bundles several conversions into one unspecified tool is not counted here.
The tiers describe commercial access at the record level. A free choice may still have usage limits, and an offline choice may require a paid licence. Check the linked product record before relying on a feature. The inventory was last checked 2026-10-23; the source and date for each product are on its record.
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