2 MB is a generous limit, and that is good news for quality: a document that has to fit 2 MB usually keeps almost all of its detail. Set the target, press Compress, and the tool re-compresses the images inside your PDF only as much as it needs to.
Typical uses are portfolios, scanned contracts, catalogues and photo-heavy reports that arrive at 10 to 60 MB from a scanner or a phone. The text layer, links and page count survive the trip, so the file you send behaves exactly like the one you started with.
Drop your PDF in — it is read from your disk into this tab and never uploaded.
Pick a target size: 100 KB, 200 KB, 500 KB, 1 MB, 2 MB (2 MB is already selected here) or type your own in KB.
Press Compress. Up to eight attempts close in on the target; download the result and compare page 1 before and after.
Big files, gentle settings. Because the search stops at the first setting that fits, a 25 MB scan squeezed into 2 MB is usually handled with a mild quality reduction rather than a brutal downscale. The result panel tells you exactly which quality and image scale were used, so nothing about the trade-off is hidden.
Load the PDF, keep the 2 MB target and press Compress. The tool re-encodes the images inside the file, measures the output after each attempt and downloads you the best-quality version that stays under 2 MB.
For office printing, usually yes: at 2 MB a ten-page scan keeps around 150 to 200 KB per page, which is plenty for readable text and clear photos. For professional print work you should keep the original file and send this one only for review.
No. The PDF is opened and rebuilt inside your browser with pdf-lib and pdf.js, so nothing is sent anywhere. There is also no queue, no two-file limit and no three-tasks-per-hour cap like the well-known online compressors put on free users.
Yes. Only image objects are re-encoded; text, fonts, links, bookmarks and the page structure are carried through exactly as they were. Your PDF stays searchable and copy-pasteable, and the page count never changes.
You get the smallest version the tool managed plus an honest explanation, usually that text, fonts and page structure already fill most of the file and no image setting can go below that floor. If there is nothing to gain at all, the tool says so and leaves your original alone.