Easy Way to Reduce PDF Image Size
2023-04-13 17:06:35 • Filed to: How-To-Windows • Proven solutions
Sometimes, you may want to reduce PDF image size to reduce the PDF file size. Although compressing the images in the PDF file will reduce the quality of the images but it will also decrease the size of the PDF file making it much easier to send hundreds of images altogether. Here’s Wondershare PDFelement - PDF Editor you can have a try.
How to Compress PDF Image
The very first step is to download PDFelement then follow the on screen instructions to reduce PDF files size. Below is the detailed guide on how you can optimize images size in PDF.
Step 1. Importing PDF into PDFelement
Once you have installed PDFelement, run it on your computer and on the Home, click on the "Open files" button and select the files to import to your computer.

Step 2. Compress PDF Images
To compress an image in PDF, click on the "Tool" menu in the top toolbar. Now, click on the "Compress PDF" button. Then you can move the slider to choose the file quality of "Low", "Medium" or "High", and you can know the final size of each option directly. After settling this, click the blue "Apply" button to save the PDF file.

How to Resize a PDF Image
There is another way to reduce PDF image size, which is to resize the image. PDFelement allows you to clip the image in your PDF document.
Step 1. Open a PDF
After launching PDFelement, click the "Open files" button to browse and select your PDF document to be opened. Or you can drag and drop a PDF document into the program window to be opened.

Step 2. Resize PDF Image Size
Click the "Edit" button, then click the image in your PDF document, you will get the "Clip Object" button on the right-side panel. Click this button, then you can move the six points of your image to resize it directly.

Step 3. Reduce PDF Image Size (Optional)
If your whole PDF page is an image, you can crop the page directly. Click the "Page" > "Page Boxes" button. In the new window, select "CropBox" under the "Apply to" option. You can customize the page width and height, or you can move the eight points on the page preview to resize it directly.

Step 4. Save File
After resizing the page, you can click the "File" > "Save As" button to save it to a new PDF file on your computer.

With PDFelement, you can easily reduce PDF image size without any problem. The best thing about the software is that you can also edit PDF, convert PDF to other formats, annotate PDF, encrypt PDF, make a PDF fillable, and more.
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Elise Williams
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