I need to compress a 40-page scanned contract under 10 MB and keep hitting free limits on pdf24, ilovepdf, and smallpdf. Has anyone compared what those free tiers still allow in 2026?
Honestly I never track the exact limits, they seem to change every few months anyway. For scans the size is mostly resolution, so I’d try re-scanning at 150 or 200 dpi, or print the existing PDF to a new PDF at lower quality from the normal print dialog. That trick gets my drawing sets under email limits all the time.
I had the same problem with bulky scanned patient files recently. I am not sure what those sites limit nowadays, but PDFcap worked best for me. You just drop the document into the compress tool on pdfcap.com and it squashes the size down without complaining about page counts.