Compress PDF — Shrink PDF Files Free, In Your Browser
Drop your PDFs, pick Strong or Light, and download them all as one zip — compressed in your browser, nothing uploaded.
Drop a file or click to choose
Drop as many as you like — they compress in your browser, then download as one zip.
Eziclip is a free, in-browser PDF compressor: drop a batch of PDFs, choose Strong (rasterizes each page for the biggest shrink) or Light (a lossless re-save that keeps the text selectable), and download them all as a single zip. Everything runs on your own device — nothing is uploaded, there's no watermark and no sign-up. Unlike Smallpdf or iLovePDF (upload required, free-tier task limits), Eziclip compresses PDFs locally with no caps.
Two ways to shrink a PDF
PDFs get heavy for two different reasons — scanned pages and big embedded images, or just a lot of pages and metadata. So there are two modes. Strong renders every page to an image and rebuilds the PDF from those, which crushes scanned and image-heavy files the most. Light is a lossless re-save that rewrites the file more compactly while keeping the text and everything else intact.
Pick Strong when the goal is the smallest possible file — an email attachment, an upload limit, a scan — and you don't need to select or search the text. Pick Light when the text has to stay real and searchable and you'll take whatever safe reduction comes with it.
Strong flattens, Light keeps text — honestly labelled
Strong's trade-off is real and worth stating plainly: because it turns each page into an image, the result looks identical but the text is no longer selectable, searchable or copyable. That's exactly why it's so much smaller on scanned or graphic-heavy PDFs. The Small / Balanced / High levels set how sharp those page images are.
Light never touches your text — it re-serializes the document losslessly, so the shrink is more modest and sometimes small, but nothing is lost. If a file can't be made smaller without quality loss, you get your original back unchanged rather than a bigger file.
Nothing uploaded — your documents stay yours
PDFs are often the most sensitive thing you'd compress — contracts, statements, IDs, client work. Every cloud PDF compressor uploads the whole document to a server. Eziclip never uploads: the compression runs in your browser, so your files never leave your device and there's nothing for any server to keep.
That's also why it's free with no caps. There's no per-file cost to us because there's no server doing the work — so there's no daily task limit, no queue, and no watermark stamped on the pages.
Free, no watermark, no sign-up
Every mode, every level and every download is free, for everyone — no account, no watermark on the pages, no paywall at the zip. Like every Eziclip tool, it's funded by optional support, not by holding your files hostage.
It works on any modern browser, on desktop or phone, and the whole batch downloads in one click as a zip, so you can compress a folder of PDFs and get a folder back.
How to compress a PDF in your browser
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Drop your PDFs
Drop as many PDFs as you like at once. They stay in your browser; nothing is uploaded.
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Pick Strong or Light
Strong for the smallest file (flattens text to images), Light to keep the text selectable. Set the level, then hit 'Compress all'.
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Download the zip
Download every compressed PDF as one zip — free, watermark-free, processed entirely on your device.
Questions
Strong rasterizes each page to an image and rebuilds the PDF — the biggest shrink, especially on scans, but the text becomes an image (no longer selectable or searchable). Light is a lossless re-save that keeps the text and everything else; the reduction is more modest but nothing is lost.
No. Compression happens entirely in your browser — your documents never leave your device, and there's nothing for any server to keep or cap.
Yes — that's the trade for the size. Strong turns each page into an image, so the file looks the same but the text can't be selected, searched or copied. Use Light if you need the text to stay real.
As many as your device can hold in memory — there's no per-batch limit. They compress one after another and download together as a single zip.
Light is lossless, so a PDF that's already efficiently saved may barely shrink. When that happens you get your original back rather than a larger file — try Strong if you need a real size cut and don't need selectable text.