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Compress PDF for Insurance Claims: Get Under 5 MB in One Pass

Reduce claim PDFs to under 5 MB with GekiPDF's free compressor. No signup, no watermark, files deleted after an hour.

    Runs the same engine as our Compress PDF tool.

    Insurance portals often cap documents at 5-10 MB and reject encrypted files outright. If your scan is 24 MB or your PDF has a password lock, upload it to GekiPDF and pick the Recommended preset (~150 DPI). The tool rewrites the file, drops metadata, and keeps the text layer—so adjusters can still search for keywords. A typical 16-page scan lands around 1.5 MB in about one second.

    You get up to 40 conversions per hour per IP address, and each file can be up to 50 MB. No account, no watermark, no waiting. After you download, the original and converted files are deleted from our servers within an hour. If the portal still rejects the output because of encryption, use the unlock-pdf tool first—then compress again.

    Frequently asked questions

    What if my insurance portal rejects encrypted PDFs?

    Use the unlock-pdf tool before compressing. Upload the protected file, remove the password, then run compress-pdf on the unlocked version. This ensures the final file is not encrypted.

    Will compression make my scanned claim forms unreadable?

    The Recommended preset (150 DPI) keeps text legible for most claims. For very detailed images like receipts, use Light (~200 DPI) instead—file size will be larger but still under typical limits.

    How fast is compression for a multi-page scan?

    A 16-page scan takes about one second using Ghostscript presets. Larger files may take longer, but you have up to 40 conversions per hour, so batch processing is fine.

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