Compress PDFMarch 16, 20263 min read

How to Compress a PDF Before Uploading to Google Drive

Reduce PDF file size to save Google Drive storage. Free local compression tool.

Google Drive offers 15 GB free. Compressing PDFs before upload extends how long before you hit the storage limit.

Steps

Go to fixmypdf.in/tools/compressor. Upload. Compress. Download. Then upload the compressed PDF to Google Drive.

FixMyPDF compresses locally — the PDF is never sent to any server. Unlike uploading to Google Drive for compression, your document stays private.

A 50 MB scanned document typically compresses to 8–15 MB. That's 10× more documents in your 15 GB free Google Drive storage.

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