3 Easy Ways to Compress Image in PDF

Sometimes the images that are on the PDF document you are working on can be very large. This can make it difficult to effectively share the PDF document via certain channels. One of the ways to mitigate this problem is to compress images in PDF.

The process of compressing PDF images can be very simple if you choose the right PDF editor and follow the right processes. In this guide, we look at this process in greater detail and the best ways to do it.

Which Image-Compression Method Should You Use?

For most readers, Reduce File Size is the correct first choice because it changes the saved PDF rather than only an image's appearance.

Why UPDF is the Best Tool for You

If you work with PDF documents regularly, then you know that some of the best PDF tools in the market can be quite expensive. But now there is a revolutionary PDF tool that gives you all the features you would expect on some of these expensive alternatives but at a lower cost to you.

UPDF can help you manage your PDF documents in various ways, including:

• It offers the best PDF reading experience, allowing you to read and annotate any PDF document with ease.
• It is also one of the best ways to edit a PDF document. You can very easily edit the text including the font and size. It also comes with an image editor, allowing you to replace, resize, reposition, crop, or delete any images within the document.
• UPDF can also be a great way to manage the pages on a PDF document, allowing you to rotate, reorder, replace, extract, delete and even add new pages to any section of the document.
• UPDF offers annotation functions that allow highlighting, underlining, adding stamps, including stickers, and signing documents. To manage documents and provide feedback, you can use the commenting function of UPDF.
• If you want to protect the PDF document, UPDF can be used to secure the documents with the help of passwords. These passwords can range from open passwords to permission passwords, where you can specify the restriction that you are to put on a document.
• The OCR feature of UPDF is one of the most elaborate tools in the PDF editor. It provides two different document types to perform OCR on. With the support of 38 languages, performing OCR with UPDF is easy.

Way 1: How to Compress Image in PDF by Cropping

To manage the size of a PDF document, you must manage the media it contains. The best way to manage the size is to reduce the image you used in the PDF document.

For this, you have two different approaches that you can use to reduce the image size. Firstly, UPDF provides the option of "Crop", which can easily decrease the size of the image. If the image is too large, you can remove the extra spaces by cropping them out.

Step 1. Enter into the Editing Mode

First of all, you should enter the editing mode by clicking the "Edit" icon in Tools displayed on the left toolbar.

Step 2. Crop the Image to Reduce the Size

Double click the select the image, and then you will see that there is a "Crop Image" icon on the floating toolbar that appears above or below the image. Click on it.

Then you can either drag the purple dashed box to begin cropping, or you can enter the width and height. Your image will become smaller.

Way 2. How to Compress Image in PDF by Resizing

Additionally, UPDF also offers the option of resizing the image size with the "Resize" option. The resizing function allows you to reduce the image size and easily manage your document.

It provides the opportunity of managing the images of the PDF under such defined settings. The tool's longevity makes it look straightforward and elegant in all cases.

• The same with the first way, you need to enter into the edit mode first.
• Click to select the image you want to resize and make it smaller.
• Drag the outside box to resize it as per your requirement.

Way 3. How to Compress Image-Based PDF Effectively

When you deal with scanned PDF or image-based PDF documents, you will find that they have a really big file size. This is the problem with scanned documents and they will take up too much of your storage.

Luckily, UPDF provides an OCR feature to help you make the image-based PDFs much smaller than the original files. Follow the steps:

Step 1. Click the OCR Button

After you open your PDF document, you will find a button about OCR displayed on the right side of the toolbar. When your cursor hovers on it, it displays "OCR" in Tools.

Step 2. Perform OCR to Get a Smaller Sizes PDF

In the new window, you will find the option "Editable PDF". Then you need to choose the layout, the document language, the image resolution, and the page range.

Enter the Layout Settings and set the image resolution also helps you reduce the file size.

Finally, click the "Convert" button and within a few seconds, you will get a PDF file with a smaller size. What's more? The texts in it become searchable and editable.

Alternatively, you can compress PDF file size by optimizing PDF file with UPDF. To do this, you can tap on "The narrow next to save" > "Reduce File Size..."

Then you can select any of the document qualities to compress the PDF file size. Once done, click the "Save As" button.

These are all the steps you need for compressing PDF files. Only 2 steps to solve your problem because of user-friendly interface of UPDF.

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Conclusion

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