Shrink a PDF under the grant portal's upload limit

Grant and RFP portals cap file size. Compress a bulky application PDF so it uploads — free, no account, no watermark.

Compress a PDF

Upload a PDF — get a smaller file back, no quality settings to fuss with.

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Grant portals, foundation applications, and government RFP systems almost always enforce a file-size limit, and a scanned budget, a signed letter, or a photo-heavy narrative blows right past it. This free tool recompresses the images inside your PDF and re-saves it smaller — often dramatically so for scanned documents — while keeping the text sharp. No account, nothing to install, and if it can't make the file smaller you get your original back. When you're assembling packets from many documents or doing this every grant cycle, a free dojobase account can automate the whole assembly.

Frequently asked questions

Will it get my application under the portal's limit?+

Usually — scanned and image-heavy PDFs often shrink by more than half. If a file is already small (mostly text or vectors), there's little to compress.

Will compressing hurt readability?+

Text stays sharp because it isn't an image; only the images are re-encoded and very large ones are scaled to a sensible size — fine for on-screen review and printing.

Is my document uploaded or kept?+

Files run through the free tool are deleted automatically a few hours after the run, and there's no watermark or account required.

Assembling packets every grant cycle?

dojobase can merge, compress, and assemble application packets automatically — so the next deadline is a click, not an afternoon.

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