Image Compressor

Compress images by reducing quality and dimensions — all inside your browser.

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Flexible Image Compression for Every Need

Instantly reduce your photo or signature size to 20KB or less. A free, private, and fast image compressor for official government forms and exam portals.

Use Case

Perfect for students and citizens filling out official online forms. Government portals (like UPSC, SSC, Aadhaar, PAN) and university admissions strictly require passport-size photographs and scanned signatures to be under 20KB.

How It Works

Reducing an image to 20KB requires aggressive compression, but our tool makes it effortless and keeps your text or face readable. By automatically scaling down the maximum width (typically around 400px to 600px for passport photos) and optimizing the JPEG quality, we ensure your file meets strict upload limits. If your image is still slightly over 20KB after the first pass, simply use the sliders to reduce the 'Quality' percentage further or decrease the 'Max Width'. Because this tool runs entirely in your browser, your sensitive documents, ID cards, and personal photos are never uploaded to a server, ensuring 100% privacy.

What You Get

Optimized images that balance quality and file size for faster uploads.

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about compressing images online.

Start with our default settings. If the downloaded file is still slightly above 20KB, simply lower the 'Max Width' to 400px or drop the quality slider down to 30% and compress again.
At 20KB, some loss of fine detail is inevitable. However, by reducing the physical dimensions (width) rather than just destroying the quality, the result remains perfectly acceptable and readable for official portal approvals.
Absolutely. Our tool processes everything locally on your device. Your images are never sent to external servers, making it completely safe for sensitive personal documents.
JPEG is universally accepted by almost all government, bank, and educational portals. It also offers the best file size reduction for photographs. Our tool defaults to JPEG for this exact reason.