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Reduce any PDF to under 5MB at high quality. 5MB is the most common email attachment limit. Free, browser-only, no signup.

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Why 5MB is the most common PDF size limit

Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo Mail, and most corporate email systems use a 5–10MB limit per attachment by default. Many submission portals also enforce 5MB as the maximum upload size. Compressing to under 5MB ensures your PDF passes through virtually any email filter without being rejected or bounced.

  • ✉️ Gmail attachment limit: 25MB (but larger files go to Drive link)
  • 📮 Many corporate servers block attachments over 5–10MB
  • 🏛️ Government portals: often 5MB maximum
  • 📚 University submission portals: commonly 5MB per file
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Frequently Asked Questions

For most PDFs the 5MB target allows moderate-to-high JPEG quality (typically 60–92%). The binary-search engine finds the highest possible quality that still fits within 5MB. Unless your PDF is very photo-heavy and very large, quality should be excellent at this target.
Compression time depends on the number of pages and your device speed. A 20-page PDF typically takes 20–60 seconds. A 100-page document may take 2–5 minutes. All processing happens in your browser — the progress bar shows page-by-page progress.