Career
Resume PDF Compressor
Get your resume PDF under a job site’s size limit, with the text kept sharp and readable. No upload, no signup, no watermark.
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PDF · up to 5 files, 100 MB each
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When a job site says your resume is too big
Application forms and job sites often cap uploads, and a resume with a photo, a designed template or scanned certificates can go over the limit. This tool brings your resume PDF under the size you pick, by shrinking the pictures inside it, and leaves the words alone.
How to use it
- Choose your resume PDF, up to 100 MB. You can do up to 5 at once.
- Pick the size it has to fit, such as the limit the job site gives.
- Press Compress resume and download the smaller PDF. Check it before you send it.
What it changes, and what it never does
- Photos, logos and scans inside the PDF are saved again at a smaller size, gently first and more firmly only if needed to fit.
- Text is never changed. It stays real text that can be selected, searched and read by software, in the same fonts. The pages aren’t turned into pictures, which would make the text unreadable to hiring software.
- Links, such as your email address or portfolio, keep working.
A resume that is all text is usually already small, often well under 1 MB; the result note will say if there was nothing large to shrink. If it still won’t fit, the note gives the smallest size reached.
Check how it reads
Before you apply, it’s worth seeing your resume the way applicant tracking software reads it. Readback, our resume checker, does that on your device too. To see the raw text it holds, try Resume to Plain Text; for any other PDF, Compress PDF offers more strengths and sizes.