Exam and university portals in India often reject anything over 100KB or 200KB. Re-scanning with a worse camera is one approach; smarter is target-KB compression that searches quality until the download approaches the cap. SortMyFile Compress PDF runs locally — your admit-card scan never uploads to finish the job.
What size caps do exam portals usually set?
Common caps are 100KB, 200KB, or 500KB for photos and supporting PDFs. Always read the portal notice — a readable 400KB file that the portal accepts beats an unreadable 100KB file.
How to compress a PDF to 200KB on SortMyFile
Open Compress PDF, enable target size (KB), enter 200 (or your portal’s number), drop the file, download, and open it to check that text and faces remain usable.
- Open Compress PDF
- Switch to Target size (KB)
- Enter 200 (or 100 if required)
- Download and verify readability before uploading to the portal
What if the PDF will not reach 200KB without becoming unreadable?
Dense photo scans may not hit tiny caps. Crop margins, remove blank pages, split to the single required page, or compress the source image first, then rebuild JPG → PDF.
Is compressing exam documents private?
Yes on SortMyFile — compression runs in the browser. Prefer that over upload converters when the PDF includes ID or address proofs.
Try it now
Open the matching SortMyFile tool — processing stays in your browser.