Lemon/PDF & documents
Compress a PDF on Mac
Scanned documents and PDFs full of images are often too big for an email attachment or an upload limit. Lemon shrinks the PDF from Finder and leaves the original where it was.
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9:41⌥ Option+ click any file
Two ways to do it on a Mac.
With Lemon
One click in Finder.
- 1Hold Option and click the PDF in Finder.
- 2Flick it onto Compress on the lemon that appears.
- 3A smaller copy lands beside the original.
Select several files first and they are all converted together. Nothing is uploaded: Lemon works with Wi-Fi off.
Built into macOS
Using Preview.
- 1Open the PDF in Preview.
- 2Choose File, then Export.
- 3Set Quartz Filter to Reduce File Size and save.
It often makes images in the PDF visibly blurry, and you can't adjust how hard it compresses.
Questions.
PDFs with photos or scans shrink the most. A PDF that is mostly text is already small and may barely change.
Every file, one flick.
Lemon converts images, video, audio, PDFs and documents from Finder. $4.99 once, no subscription.