Optimize, Compress or Reduce PDF Size in Python

A PDF document may sometimes contain additional data. Reducing the size of a PDF file will help you optimize network transfer and storage. This is especially handy for publishing on web pages, sharing on social networks, sending by e-mail, or archiving in storage. We can use several techniques to optimize PDF:

• Optimize page content for online browsing
• Shrink or compress all images
• Enable reusing page content
• Merge duplicate streams
• Unembed fonts
• Remove unused objects
• Remove flattening form fields
• Remove or flatten annotations

Detailed explanation of optimization methods can be found in the Optimization Methods Overview page.

Optimize PDF Document for the Web

Optimization, or linearization for Web, refers to the process of making a PDF file suitable for online browsing using a web browser. To optimize a file for web display:

The following code snippet shows how to optimize a PDF document for the web.

    import AsposePDFPythonWrappers as ap

    # The path to the documents directory.
    dataDir = "..."

    # Open document
    document = ap.Document(dataDir + "OptimizeDocument.pdf")

    # Optimize for web
    document.optimize()

    dataDir = dataDir + "OptimizeDocument_out.pdf"

    # Save output document
    document.Save(dataDir)