VeryPDF PDF Compressor

VeryPDF PDF Compressor is an easy-to-use software program that can be help you reduce the size of PDF documents. It delivers the best results when it comes to large quantities of files or large-sized PDFs.

Hassle-free installation and user-friendly interface

The setup operation is fast and shouldn't impose any difficulties. As far as the interface is concerned, VeryPDF PDF Compressor opts for a user-friendly window with a clear-cut structure that lets you add as many docs to the task list as you want, since batch processing is supported.
You can check out the full path and size for each file, remove any of them from the list, clear the entire queue to start the project from scratch, as well as indicate the destination folder for the new and compressed files.

Configure compression preferences, add passwords, and edit metadata

Compression settings can be separately configured for images, fonts, security, and description. Therefore, you can pick the downsample resolution, downsample type (bicubic, closed, subsample, average) and compress mode (JPEG, ZIP, auto) for color, grayscale and monochrome images.
It's possible to embed all fonts, compress and subset them, set a user and owner password and manage user permissions by allowing or denying printing, document assembly, content copying, and commenting, as well as generate a PDF/A file and edit metadata in regard to the PDF title, author, subject, keywords, creator, and producer. Settings can be reset to default.

Evaluation and conclusion

The software utility carried out compression tasks swiftly in our tests while remaining light on system resources usage. It had a good response time, delivered good compression results, and didn't hang, crash or display any error notifications.
All in all, VeryPDF PDF Compressor offers a practical and simple solution to compressing multiple PDF documents to reduce their size and make room for new files, backed by handy customization preferences. Nevertheless, the price of the full package seems too much.