Compress PDF without flattening pages
PDF compression, searchable text and image quality
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For text-heavy documents, optimize embedded streams and remove duplicate or unreachable PDF objects before reducing image resolution. PDF compression cannot promise a smaller file every time: a document with compressed images may already be close to optimal.
Choose Compress PDF in PDF Studio and select a valid document. MallowShare attempts structural compression first. The result stays a PDF with searchable text where the source supports it; if stream optimization is not smaller, the original is returned. You can verify selectability in your PDF viewer.
Photographs embedded in a PDF may dominate its size. More aggressive image recompression can reduce fidelity, so there is no single best compression ratio for every file.