Scanned PDFs are bulky because each page is basically a photo. A five-page phone scan can easily hit 10–40MB. That’s great for archival detail and terrible for portals, email, and chat.
Compress a scan (best path)
- Open Compress scanned PDF or Compress PDF.
- Drop in the scan.
- Pick a target — 500KB–2MB works for many forms; use 300KB when the portal is strict.
- Cast the spell and download.
Imgician re-renders every page and rebuilds a smaller PDF on your device. Scans compress especially well because there’s little vector/text structure to preserve.
Tips for cleaner, smaller scans next time
- Scan or photograph at a sensible resolution — you rarely need full sensor size for a form upload.
- Crop blank margins before converting photos to PDF (Image to PDF).
- Remove blank or duplicate pages first with Delete pages from PDF.
- Fix sideways pages with Rotate PDF pages before compressing.
When the target won’t hit
Very long, high-DPI packets may not reach 100KB. Split with Split PDF, compress fewer pages, or accept the smallest result the tool returns (it never makes the file larger than the original).
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FAQ
Is this only for scans?
It works on any PDF, but shines on image-heavy scans. Tiny text-only PDFs often don’t need it.
Will I lose selectable text?
Yes — pages are rasterized. Scanned PDFs usually didn’t have real text layers anyway.
Private?
Yes. Nothing is uploaded to Imgician.
Ready to cast a spell?
