Optimize Scanned PDF

Clean up scanned PDFs with contrast, grayscale or black-and-white conversion, crop, and local recompression.

Options

Color, grayscale, or black-and-white cleanup mode.

Contrast boost, render DPI, and JPEG quality controls.

Auto-crop for obvious scanned page borders.

Optional metadata removal in the rebuilt PDF.

How to optimize a scanned PDF

  1. Upload PDFUpload a scanned or image-heavy PDF.
  2. Choose modeChoose color, grayscale, or black-and-white cleanup.
  3. Adjust settingsAdjust contrast, DPI, quality, crop, and metadata options.
  4. OptimizeOptimize locally, compare the first-page preview, and download.

FAQ

Are scanned PDFs uploaded?
No. Rendering, cleanup, recompression, and export run in your browser.
Will text stay selectable?
Scanned pages are rebuilt as optimized images. Use OCR PDF next when you need searchable text.
Does this deskew pages?
This optimizer handles contrast, grayscale or black-and-white conversion, crop, speckle cleanup, and recompression. Dedicated Deskew PDF is a separate scan tool.