Compress a PDF for a College Admission Form
College and university admission portals cap uploaded marksheets and certificates — commonly 200 KB to 1 MB each. Compress your scans to fit while keeping them readable, all in your browser, so your documents aren't uploaded to a third party.
The requirement
- Common limits
- 200 KB – 1 MB per file
- Best for
- Marksheets, certificates, ID proofs
- Tip
- Greyscale scans start much smaller
- Format
These are typical published values and can change from year to year and from one portal to another. Always confirm the exact requirement in the official notification or upload portal before you submit — the official source takes precedence over anything here.
Step by step
- 1Check the admission portal's size limit for each document.
- 2Open the pre-armed compressor at that target and add your scan.
- 3Download and upload each file to the admission form.
The free tools you need
Need something else? Try our free PDF compressor or merge PDF files. You can also browse all free PDF tools — everything runs in your browser, with nothing uploaded.
Frequently asked questions
Use the pre-armed compressor at the portal's limit (e.g. 200 KB or 500 KB); it fits the scan to the target while keeping it legible.
Scans store pages as high-resolution images. Compressing (or scanning in greyscale) shrinks them a lot.
No — compression runs in your browser, so nothing leaves your device.