How to make a 200 KB PDF from photos
- Tap Choose your photos and pick the pages, in order.
- The target is already set to 200 KB. Tap Make 200 KB PDF.
- Open the result and read the smallest line of text on it.
- Save the file.
How the size is reached
The whole document is assembled, measured, and assembled again at a different quality — a real search rather than a guess, because a PDF’s size depends on what is in the photographs and no formula predicts it. The first attempt is at the lowest quality on offer: if even that overshoots, no setting in between can fit and there is no point spending five more attempts discovering it.
What comes back is the largest document that still fits, not the smallest one possible. Coming in at 90 KB against a 200 KB cap wins nothing and costs legibility.
Photograph the pages so the search has less to do
Fill the frame with the paper, keep the light even, and hold the camera square to the page. Everything else in the shot — desk, hands, shadow, the pattern on the tablecloth — is detail that has to be stored at the same quality as the words you actually need, and it is why two photographs of the same certificate can differ threefold in size.