PDF Resizer Software

[DavR]

Does anyone know of any decent free tools to compress PDFs in bulk? We're moving towards sending more stuff home to parents via email, but Groupcall which the office uses has a 2MB attachment limit.

 

Ad hoc I use https://online2pdf.com/pdf-reduce-size which is very good, but we're in dangerous data protection territory uploading things to an unknown third party server.

 

I've tried a few things, but they've all been restricted or watermark the document in some way.

 

Any suggestions gratefully received!

[Arthur]

FileOptimizer should do the trick. No watermarks either since it's open source.

 

It looks like it uses ImageMagick and Ghostscript for PDFs (which is what @pete mentioned below).

Edited July 21, 2016 by Arthur

[pete]

I'm assuming you want a school office-friendly tool? Try using PDFCreator to make the PDF - it generally produces smaller files than Office's built-in function. Play around with the settings until you get a balance between "small file size" and "still looks OK".

 

For non-office friendly, ImageMagick and Ghostscript.

[DavR]

@Arthur - just trying that now, thanks!

@pete, interesting point. At the moment its for me, as people come to me when it doesn't work and I fix the files. May be worth investigating why the files are so big in the first place, or passing this on to the office team! When we've had this issue so far, the files have been supplied by teachers though, so limited in how much we can expect at the creation stage. Thanks for some more names to try

[DavR]

FileOptimizer is nice, but it does murder images and doesn't give much in a way of quality options.

 

I'd like a GUI if possible, so will leave ImageMagick and Ghostscript for another day....