PDF (Portable Document Format) files are commonly used for sharing documents across different platforms and devices. However, these files can be large in size, which can cause problems when sharing or storing them. To address this issue, it is often necessary to compress the PDF files. For such cases, this article demonstrates how to compress PDF files in Python. Thus, you can easily reduce the size of the PDF files.
Python Library to Compress PDF
For compressing PDF files, we will use Aspose.PDF for Python, which is a powerful PDF processing library. It makes it seamlessly easy to create, edit, and process PDF documents. Before we start compressing PDF, install the library in your Python application using the following pip command.
pip install aspose-pdf
Compress a PDF File in Python
Aspose.PDF for Python makes it effortless to compress PDF files and in a few lines of code, you can reduce the size of a PDF. The following are the steps to compress a PDF in Python.
- First, load the PDF file using Document class.
- Then, create an instance of OptimizationOptions class.
- Set OptimizationOptions.image_compression_options.compress_images property to True.
- Set the quality of images using OptimizationOptions.image_compression_options.image_quality property.
- Compress PDF using optimize_resources(OptimizationOptions) method.
- Finally, save the compressed PDF using Document.save() method.
The following code sample shows how to compress a PDF file in Python.
Online Tool to Compress PDF
You can also use our free online PDF compressor to reduce the size of PDF files, which is based on Aspose.PDF for Python.
Free Python PDF Library
We also provide a free temporary license that you can use to compress PDF files without any limitations. Also, you can visit the documentation to explore more about the Python PDF library.
Conclusion
In this article, you have learned how to compress PDF files in Python. The step-by-step guide and code sample have demonstrated how you can reduce the size of a PDF seamlessly. You can easily install Aspose.PDF for Python and compress PDF files in your Python application.