Python Compress PDF File: A Beginner Guide – Python Tutorial

In this tutorial, we will introduce how to compress a pdf file in python. The best way to compress a pdf file is use other application to compress pdf file using python. For example: Use python call ghostscript.

How to use python to compress pdf file?

We can use pdf_compressor.py, You can download it in here.

This python script use python to call ghostscript to compress pdf file.

How to use pdf_compressor.py to compress pdf file?

You can use compress() function to compress.

power can be:

quality = {
        0: '/default',
        1: '/prepress',
        2: '/printer',
        3: '/ebook',
        4: '/screen'
    }

where

/default
/prepress: 300dpi
/printer: 300dpi
/ebook: 150dpi
/screen: 72dpi

For example:

compress("source.pdf", 'compressed.pdf')