PDFStay

Compress Scanned PDF Online

Reduce scanned PDF size by resampling pages in the browser, useful for IDs, forms, and scan-heavy documents.

Open Scanned PDF Compression

How it works

  1. Choose a scanned PDF from your device.
  2. Select scanned PDF compression.
  3. Download the compressed result locally.

Privacy / no upload

Your PDFs stay on your device for normal PDFStay tools. Browser-based processing keeps ordinary compression, merging, splitting, organizing, and conversion work local by default.

Common use cases

  • Compress scanned applications.
  • Reduce ID or certificate scans.
  • Prepare scanned forms for upload limits.

FAQ

Can PDFStay compress scanned PDFs?

Yes. Scanned PDF compression is designed for image-based PDF pages and runs in the browser.

Will scanned compression keep text searchable?

Scanned compression may output image-based pages, so text may no longer be copyable or searchable.