Portals that reject anything over 100KB or 200KB are common for admissions and government forms. SortMyFile Compress PDF includes a target size (KB) mode that searches quality until the download approaches your cap.
Steps
Open Compress PDF, enable target size mode, enter 100 or 200 (or your portal’s limit), drop the scan, download, and verify readability.
- Open Compress PDF
- Switch to Target size (KB)
- Enter 100 or 200
- Run and check the result before submitting
Quality reality check
Tiny caps often force blurry pages. If the form accepts 500KB, use that. After heavy compress, text may no longer be selectable — OCR PDF can restore a searchable layer if needed.
Try it now
Open the matching SortMyFile tool — processing stays in your browser.