Get a résumé under 2MB without uploading it. Local compression for Indian job portals and email.
Most Indian job portals still treat a PDF résumé as a file upload with a hard ceiling. Naukri, Internshala, many campus portals, and a surprising number of ATS widgets reject anything above 1MB or 2MB. Recruiters also bounce 8MB design-portfolio CVs that never make it through corporate mail filters. The usual advice is “upload it to a compressor website.” That means a live CV — current employer, phone, address — sits on someone else’s disk.
PDF on Browser compresses the file in this tab. Pages are drawn to a canvas and re-encoded as JPEG inside a new PDF. That is a blunt but honest method: photos and background shapes shrink a lot; selectable text becomes part of the image. For a two-page CV it is usually enough to land under 2MB. You never create an account, and the original never leaves the device.
A practical sequence: export the résumé from Word or Google Docs as PDF, open Compress PDF, start with Medium, download, and check the file size in your finder. If it is still heavy, run Heavy. If the CV is a scan of a printed page, Heavy is almost always required because scans are already pictures. If it is a text-heavy campus résumé, Light often suffices and keeps headings readable.
Combine tools when the portal wants one file. Merge a one-page cover letter with the CV first, then compress the result so the bundle still fits the cap. If a designer résumé uses full-page photographs, replace those with smaller exports from your layout app before compressing — no local compressor can invent detail that a 12 megapixel background never needed.
The same 2MB habit helps outside job hunt season. Several Indian tax and KYC desks choke on photographed ITR acknowledgements or Aadhaar e-KYC PDFs. Compress those on-device too. Do not email an uncompressed scan of an identity document to a random web service to “make it smaller.” Size is a portal constraint; privacy is yours.
After the download, PDF on Browser may ask for a pay-what-you-want tip. Skip is always available. The file is already on disk. We do not hold it hostage, and we cannot see it.
Open Compress PDF, drop the résumé, choose the 2 MB target or start with Medium, and download. The file never leaves this device. Pages become images.
Those portals are commonly described as capping uploads around 1–2MB. That figure is from résumé guides, not an official Naukri spec we could cite. Compress locally, then check the size before you upload.
No. This compressor rasterizes pages to JPEG inside a new PDF. For a two-page CV that is usually enough to land under 2MB, and the text is no longer selectable.