Compress a PDF for Court e-Filing
Court e-filing portals cap each uploaded document — often a few MB — and scanned exhibits blow past that fast. Compress them to fit while keeping every page legible, all in your browser, so confidential filings are never uploaded to a third party.
The requirement
- Common per-file limit
- A few MB (portal-dependent)
- Safe target
- 1 MB (comfortably fits most)
- Best for
- Scanned exhibits, petitions, affidavits
- 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 your court portal's per-document size limit.
- 2Compress each PDF to comfortably fit (1 MB is a safe target).
- 3Download and upload each document to the filing.
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
Compress it to fit the portal's per-document limit; 1 MB is a safe target that keeps scanned pages legible.
Yes. Compression tunes quality to keep text and exhibits legible while cutting the file size.
Yes — compression runs in your browser, so nothing is uploaded.