Keeping searchable words and reducing size are separate goals. This raster compressor cannot preserve a text layer.
If retaining selectable words is essential, do not use this compressor, because even Gentle creates page pictures. Optimise images in the source app or remove unnecessary pages using Split PDF. Keep the original searchable version.
All three presets turn pages into images, removing selectable text and interactive form behaviour. Existing certificate-based signatures are not preserved.
Output size is not guaranteed. There is no exact-KB control or result preview; download and inspect the saved PDF.
This tool cannot keep the text, because every setting turns the pages into pictures. If you need to stay searchable, the effective options sit outside it. Export the PDF again from the original program with lower image quality, or shrink the large pictures in the original before you export.
Inside the site, the practical route is to send fewer pages. Split PDF takes out the pages that are needed and leaves them exactly as they were, with their text. Where a scan is the problem, scanning again in grey at a lower resolution gives a small file without needing any compression.
Keep the original or re-export from its authoring app with smaller embedded images. Gentle also rasterises text; Brodidit has no text-preserving PDF compression mode.
A PDF that needs a password to open must be unlocked first with Protect PDF. A very long scanned document can run out of memory on a phone, so try a computer, or split it into parts and compress each one.
No. Gentle, Balanced and Smallest all redraw each page as a picture, so the text is not selectable in any of them.