JPG to PDF under 200 KB

Turn photos of documents or an ID card into one PDF under 200 KB. Put the pages in order, pick A4 or US Letter, and see the size. Free and private.

Before you start

Photos of paper are big: one phone photo is often 2 to 5 MB. When a form wants a PDF under 200 KB, several photos have to become one small file, so each page has to shrink a lot.

This page opens JPG to PDF with "Under 200 KB" already chosen. Add your photos, put them in order and press "Make my PDF". The result page shows the size, the number of pages and the sharpness (DPI) it used.

Tips

A worked example: an ID card, front and back, in 200 KB

Take two phone photos: the front and the back of an ID card. Add the front first, then the back, and tick "Two photos on each page". Both go on one page, the front above the back, with a margin of 0.4 inch (about 1 cm) around them.

The whole 200 KB now goes to one page instead of two. SafeResize starts at 150 DPI, where an A4 page is 1241 × 1754 pixels, and lowers the sharpness only if the page does not fit. The photos are never cropped or stretched, so crop each one to the card on your phone first: the more of the photo the card fills, the bigger and sharper its text is on the page.

Questions and answers

How many photos fit in 200 KB?

It depends on the photos more than on how many there are. Shared evenly, 200 KB is about 50 KB a page for 4 pages and 40 KB a page for 5. Printed text shrinks well, and busy colour photos less so. The result page says if the PDF is over the limit.

Why does my PDF look softer than my photos?

To fit 200 KB, the pages are saved at a lower sharpness. SafeResize tries 150 DPI first, then 120, 100, 80 and 60, and uses the first that fits. Below 100 DPI, the result page asks you to zoom in and check that it is readable.

Are my photos uploaded?

No. The PDF is made inside your browser, and your photos stay on your device.

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