pdf-compress-tool

Compress to target size

"Compress this PDF to under 2MB"
"Compress this PDF to under 5MB"

python compress_pdf.py report.pdf --target-size 2MB

Compress by percentage

"Reduce the file size by 30%"
"Reduce the file size by 50%"

python compress_pdf.py report.pdf --reduce 30

Specify output path and quality

python compress_pdf.py report.pdf --reduce 50 --quality low -o small.pdf

Batch processing

"Compress all PDFs in the papers folder to under 2MB"

python compress_pdf.py --batch ./papers --target-size 2MB
python compress_pdf.py --batch ./papers --reduce 40 --quality high