Cut a PDF down to email size without installing anything. The compressor runs in your browser, so the file stays on your machine the whole time.
Drop your PDF here — it opens instantly or click to choose a file · free to edit · $1 only when you downloadDollarFix PDF compresses a PDF in your browser by re-encoding its embedded images (Light, Balanced or Strong JPEG presets) and downscaling oversized ones — nothing is uploaded. Photo-heavy files shrink dramatically; text-only PDFs barely change. Compressing is free, and a one-time $1 unlocks the download.
Last updated: August 2026
A PDF that refuses to go through email is almost always heavy because of the pictures inside it, not the words. DollarFix PDF compresses your file directly in the browser: it finds the embedded raster images, re-encodes them as efficient JPEGs and, when a photo is far larger than the space it occupies on the page, scales it down to a sensible resolution. The document never leaves your device — there is no upload step at all, which also means no waiting for a 40 MB file to crawl to a server and back.
You choose how hard to squeeze. Light keeps images close to their original quality and is safe for anything you plan to print. Balanced is the everyday setting — it usually cuts photo-heavy files dramatically with no visible change on screen. Strong pushes JPEG quality further down for the times when hitting a mailbox limit matters more than pixel perfection. Images with transparency are left untouched rather than flattened, so logos and stamps keep their clean edges.
One honest caveat: compression works on images, so a PDF that is mostly text or vector graphics will barely shrink. Those pages are already stored as compact drawing instructions, and there is no fat to trim. If your 300-page report is 900 KB of pure text, no compressor — this one included — will turn it into 200 KB. Where the tool earns its keep is scans, brochures, presentations and anything assembled from photos, which routinely drop to a fraction of their original size.
Compressing and previewing the result cost nothing, and you can retry with a different preset as many times as you like. When the size is right, a single $1 payment unlocks the download — no account to create, no subscription hiding behind a trial, no daily quota, and no cap on how big the file can be. If the result is not worth saving, you have spent nothing.