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Compress Image to 100 KB

100% private

Get a photo or document scan under 100 KB for an upload form. Compressed on this device, never uploaded.

Drop your files here Images (JPG, PNG, WebP) or one PDF. They stay on your device — we never see them, and there is nowhere for them to be sent.
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Your files
1 Size limit

Pick the limit the form is asking for. We find the best quality that fits under it — you never have to guess a percentage.

2 Output format

Keep JPG for anything you’re uploading to a form — some portals still reject WebP. PDFs always come back as PDFs.

Working…
Advanced options

The picture is fitted inside this box and keeps its shape — nothing is ever cropped without you asking.

Refuse to go below this quality, even if that means missing the target. Raise it if you’d rather have a slightly bigger file than a blotchy one.

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Step by step

How to compress an image to 100 KB

Under 100 KB is already selected, so this is drop, press and download.

Add your file

Drag it onto this page, or press Choose files. Photos and scans in JPG, PNG or WebP all work, and so does a single PDF.

Check the limit

Under 100 KB is preselected. If the form gives a range, such as 50–100 KB, choose the matching preset so the file can’t come out too small.

Press Compress

The tool searches for the highest quality that still fits, and reduces the pixel size only if quality alone can’t get there.

Download

Zoom into the thumbnail to check any text is still readable, then save it with the green button.

What 100 KB means

What fits in 100 KB

100 KB is generous for a face photo and tight for a document. You meet it for photos, and for scans of certificates, ID proofs and declarations, where the text on the page has to stay readable.

Documents: keep the text readable

Photograph the page flat and in good light, and crop it to the paper. Document Scanner does that crop and flattening for you. Then turn on Convert to black and white under Advanced options, so more of the 100 KB goes on sharpness.

Photos: plenty of room

A head-and-shoulders photo fits under 100 KB at high quality, with resolution to spare. If the form also names pixel dimensions, enter them under Advanced options.

When there’s a minimum

IBPS’s handwritten declaration must be between 50 and 100 KB. Pick that preset and the result can’t fall below the floor. A plain Under 100 KB target never adds size to a file that is already small.

Private by design

Why this compressor can’t leak your file

Think about what people actually compress: a photo of themselves for an exam form, a scan of a passport or PAN card, a signature, a salary slip. Most free compressors upload all of that to a server, shrink it there, and hand back a link — one popular tool states plainly that your images sit on its server for thirty minutes afterwards. This one works differently, and you can check that yourself.

Zero uploads

The compressor is downloaded to your browser once. From then on it reads your file straight from your own disk. Your photo never enters a network request, so there is no copy of it anywhere for us to keep, lose, or be compelled to hand over.

Nothing stored

The original and the compressed copy live only in this tab’s memory. Close it and both are gone immediately — no processing queue, no temporary folder, no “we delete files after thirty minutes” promise you have to take on trust.

No account

No sign-up, no email address, no daily limit, no watermark stamped across your photo, and no paid tier that unlocks the size you actually needed.

To be precise about what does leave your device — because “100% private” is easy to say and worth checking. Two things, neither of them your file:

1. When a compression finishes, this page sends one anonymous message to our counter saying “reduce-file-size was used”. No file, no file name, no sizes, nothing identifying you. It exists so the usage number above is a real one rather than something we invented.
2. Google Analytics records the page view and that a compression happened, the same as on every other page of this site. It is told which size limit and format you picked from the lists, and whether the result fitted — never anything about your file: not its name, its size, how much smaller it got or how many you compressed. You can block it and the tool works exactly the same.

Your photos and documents are in neither. They never enter a network request at all — and unlike a promise, that is something you can check. Turn off your wifi, reload this page and compress something anyway. It still works. No upload-based compressor can pass that test.

At a glance

Tool specifications

InputJPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP and AVIF images; PDF documents
OutputJPG or WebP for images; PDF for PDFs. Several images arrive as one ZIP
Target sizes20 KB to 5 MB from the list, or any custom value up to 50 MB
What “KB” means here1 KB = 1024 bytes, matching Windows, macOS and virtually every upload form
How the target is metHighest quality that fits, found by binary search; resolution is reduced only when compression alone cannot get there
BatchUp to 60 images at once, each fitted to the target individually. One PDF at a time
PDF caveatPages are rebuilt as pictures, so text stops being selectable or searchable. You are warned before it happens
HEIC (iPhone photos)Works in Safari on iPhone and Mac. In Chrome, Firefox or Edge, turn it into a JPG first with our Image Format Changer, which carries its own HEIC decoder
PNG outputNot offered — PNG has no quality setting, so a byte target can’t be met without throwing away pixels
Maximum file size150 MB hard limit; a warning above 25 MB
Where processing happensIn your browser, on your device — nothing is uploaded
Works offlineYes, once the page has loaded, including as an installed app
Sign-upNot required, not offered
WatermarkNone
PriceFree

Questions

Compressing to 100 KB, answered

Is my file uploaded anywhere?
No. The compression runs inside your browser, and your file is read from your own disk and never placed in a network request. Disconnect from the internet and compress one: it still works.
Will the file be exactly 100 KB?
At or under it, never over. The tool looks for the best quality that still fits, so the file usually lands just below the limit. A JPG that is already under 100 KB is handed back untouched.
Is 100 KB counted as 100,000 or 102,400 bytes?
Here, 102,400: 1 KB is 1024 bytes, the way Windows counts. If a portal counts 1 KB as 1000 bytes and rejects a file just over 100,000, choose Custom size and ask for 97 KB, which is 99,328 bytes.
My scan is hard to read at 100 KB. What can I do?
Crop away the margins and anything that isn’t the document, turn on Convert to black and white, and make sure the photo was sharp to begin with. A document of several pages is better as one PDF: Compress PDF spreads the size across the pages.
Can I keep the original pixel size?
Tick Don’t resize — lower the quality only under Advanced options. Every pixel is kept, and if 100 KB can’t be reached that way you are told, rather than the picture being shrunk behind your back.
Why does my PNG come back as a JPG?
PNG is lossless and has no quality setting, so it can’t be squeezed to an exact size without throwing away pixels. JPG can, and it is what upload forms expect. Transparent areas are filled with white.
Can I compress several files at once?
Up to 60 images at a time, each fitted under 100 KB on its own and downloaded together as one ZIP. PDFs go one at a time.
Is there a catch: a sign-up, a watermark, a daily limit?
No. There is no account, no watermark, no paid tier and no daily limit, because there is no server doing the work and so nothing to ration. Nopturnia funds itself through affiliate links on its product buying guides.

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Something not right?

If a file wouldn’t open, a form still rejected the result, or the preset you needed isn’t in the list, tell us. The form opens with the tool already filled in, so you only have to describe what happened.