Compress a PDF for a Passport Application
Passport application portals cap uploaded supporting documents (address proof, ID, birth proof) at a set size. Compress your scans to fit while keeping them readable, all in your browser, so your identity documents are never uploaded to a third party.
The requirement
- Common limits
- A few hundred KB to a few MB
- Best for
- Address & ID proof, birth certificate
- 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 passport portal's size limit for each document.
- 2Open the pre-armed compressor at that target and add your scan.
- 3Download and upload each document to the application.
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; it fits each scan to the target while keeping it legible — and never uploads it.
Yes. Everything runs in your browser, so your identity documents are never sent to any server.
Scans store each page as a high-resolution image; compressing (or scanning in greyscale) shrinks them a lot.