Reduce the size of PDF with ORPALIS PDF Reducer Free Edition

For those who have a lot of PDF documents and want uploaded or sent through the internet, usually have to think when the size of the PDF is too big. Upload process becomes longer, the process of the download by users also will be longer. So we need a software to compress PDF documents.

When saving a document from Microsoft Word 2007 or higher to PDF, there are two options, namely Standard (to be printed) and Minimum size so that the PDF size smaller. But what if we already have a PDF document and want to shrink in size without the need to first convert it to a word? One of the free software that can be used is ORPALIS PDF Reducer. There are 2 editions, and which I review is the free edition.

Although in this free version there are some limitations, such as additional message appears every time the program is run and does not support multi-threading for processing many documents, but its no different than the paid version, so the free version is enough.

The use of these programs is relatively easy, only when run for the first time, the default option is to open the folder instead of a document or PDF file. To change this option, please open the Options menu, then on the General tab, in the Input mode select Files Selection. So we can choose the source is a PDF document. 

From the main page of this program, we can insert a pdf document via the Source button on the right field, and set the Destination field also. Afterwards click on the Start Batch button, the PDF compression process will be run and after completion (which usually only takes a few seconds) is shown the output PDF size information and what percentage of the size of the PDF is reduced from its original size. 

After trying several PDF files, the result of ORPALIS PDF Reducer Free Edition is pretty good and everything can be opened without any problems. The result is a PDF output has a smaller size than the original, ranging from 20% to 36% smaller than its original size, and may be smaller depending on the content inside PDF documents and settings options.

If you want to try with a variety of other options, in order to obtain the size of the PDF is much smaller. Please open the Options menu to see what options are available to compress PDF documents.  

Download ORPALIS PDF Reducer Free Edition (14.4 MB)