Work Smarter with PDFelement User Guide
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Get Started with PDFelement
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Open PDF
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View PDF
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Create PDF Files
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Annotate PDF Files
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Edit PDF Files
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Combine PDF Files
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Organize PDF Files
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PDF OCR
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Convert PDF Files
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Fill PDF Form
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Protect & Sign PDF
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Print PDF Files
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Share PDF Files
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PDF AI Tools
- Summarize Multiple PDFs
- PDF Grammar Checker
- AI Knowledge Card
- Customize AI Assistant
- Customize AI Prompt
- Intelligent Image Editing
- Explain Content & Code
- How to Summarize a PDF to a Mind Map on Windows
- PDF to Markdown with AI
- Proofread PDF
- Rewrite PDF
- Summarize PDF
- How to Get Side-by-Side Translation?
- Batch Translate PDFs
- Generate Images With AI
- Chat with PDF
- Chat with Multiple PDFs
- Translate PDF
- How to Read Aloud PDF
- AI Content Detector
How to Compress PDF
PDFelement provides a powerful PDF compression feature designed to reduce the file size of PDF documents efficiently without sacrificing quality. The compression tool offers multiple levels: High, Medium, and Low that reduce the file size while maintaining the quality. Follow the steps provided next to learn how to reduce the size of the PDF document using this efficient tool:
Step 1
After adding your PDF document to the tool’s interface, go to the left sidebar and click on the “Tools” option. Next, press the “Compress” option from the expanded list to proceed.

Step 2
Moving forward, select the level of compression from the options provided and configure other settings. Finally, hit the “Apply” button at the bottom to execute the compression process.

Step 3
Alternatively, access the “Compress PDF” option located on the homepage once you launch the tool on your device.

Step 4
Add the files for compression, select the compression level, and press “Apply” to successfully reduce the file size of the documents.
