What people search and post about
Common queries: compress PDF for email, reduce PDF file size, PDF too large for Gmail. Professionals also hit court and IRS portal megabyte limits on scan-heavy filings.
The manual alternative
Opening each PDF in a desktop tool, tuning quality, re-saving, and re-checking size—then discovering the portal still rejects the file—can stretch a simple send into a long side quest.
Seconds in Autocompress
Upload, pick a JPEG quality / compression level suited to scans vs. born-digital text, download. Batch mindset: same preset across similar files during busy season or closing week.
When to combine with other tools
If the content must stay vector text, compression may be limited—consider splitting with Autosplit or extracting only needed pages with Autoextract.