Compress supporting documents and resumes to about 200KB — a common ceiling for UPSC and recruitment uploads. Browser-only, nothing is sent anywhere.
Not necessarily. Reaching a fixed size means re-encoding pages as images, so selectable text can become part of the picture. If your portal requires searchable text, check the output before submitting.
Usually yes, though quality drops as pages are added. The tool reports the size it achieved so you can judge before downloading.
No. The whole process runs in your browser using your own device's processing power. The file never leaves your device, which matters for identity and financial documents.
Neither. The tool is free to use with no account and adds nothing to your document.
200KB is a frequent limit for supporting documents in UPSC applications and for resumes on recruitment portals. It is generous enough for a multi-page scan and small enough that portals accept it without complaint.
Where 50KB forces you to split a document, 200KB usually does not. A three or four page scan can fit while remaining readable, which makes this one of the more forgiving targets to work with.
A resume exported from Word is text, not images, and is often already under 200KB. If yours is larger it is normally because of an embedded photo or a logo — compressing here will target exactly that.
Most of a scanned PDF is photographic data, not text, and photographic data compresses steeply. That is why a 5MB scan can become a 200KB file that still reads clearly, while a 200KB text-only PDF has almost nothing left to remove.
Upload limits change between notifications and differ by document type, so treat 200KB as the size you were asked for rather than a universal rule. The instruction sheet on your application portal is the authority; if it names a different figure, use the matching page below.
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