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Shrinking a PDF Without Turning Its Pages Into Pictures

By Edem DOGBE · DEV Community · 11/1/2026

Most browser-side "compress PDF" code does the same thing. It renders every page to a canvas, encodes that canvas as a JPEG, and builds a new PDF with one picture per page. It works on anything, and the file usually gets smaller. It also destroys the document: the text can no longer be selected or…

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