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PDF Compression Guide
How PDF compression works and why some files shrink more than others.
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PDF compression can reduce file size by rewriting objects, removing metadata, optimizing streams, and compressing images.
Documents made mostly of text often compress modestly, while scanned or image-heavy PDFs may need image resampling for large reductions.
For sensitive documents, browser-side compression can be useful when best-effort optimization is enough.
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