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How to compress a PDF to 300 KB
Nepal's online passport application asks for scanned documents of 300 KB or less, and many other portals use the same limit. This page is set to 300 KB and finds the sharpest version of your PDF that fits. In India, Protean's PAN card application uses the same 300 KB limit for each page of supporting documents.
Add the scanned PDF, such as your citizenship certificate.
Leave 300 KB selected.
Click Compress PDF and upload the result to the portal.
Forms that ask for 300 KB
300 KB appears on several national portals. Nepal's online passport application asks for scanned documents of 300 KB or less, and some Indian e-governance forms specify 300 KB per page. Because it is more generous than the 100 and 200 KB caps, multi-page black-and-white scans usually fit without any loss of resolution, and even colour scans of two or three pages are fine.
If a form says 300 KB per page but you are uploading a multi-page PDF, the safe reading is to keep the whole file under 300 KB; a page-by-page limit is never violated by a file that small.
Scanning for small files
Scan at 200 DPI rather than 300 or 600; it remains clearly legible and the file is a fraction of the size. Use the black-and-white or "document" mode of your scanner app for text documents and keep colour for photographs and ID cards where the form requires it. Scan to PDF on this site uses your phone camera and produces a PDF ready to compress.
Compress PDF to 300 KB FAQ
The passport portal asks for each scanned document to be 300 KB or less. Check its current instructions before you apply, as requirements can change.
A one- or two-page ID scan fits under 300 KB comfortably while staying clear. Scan in colour, in good light, for the best result.
No. Compression runs in your browser, which matters for ID documents.
No. The tool runs entirely in your browser, so your files are processed on your own device and never leave it.
Yes. Every PDFCraftly tool is free, with no sign-up, no watermark and no email required.
Guides
- PAN Card Photo and Signature Size: How to Resize for the Online FormPAN card photo and signature size for the Protean (NSDL) online form: photo 20 KB, signature 10 KB, documents 300 KB a page. Resize them free in your browser.
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