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A typical black-and-white text document fits about 80–120 pages. A photo-heavy brochure might only squeeze 3–5 pages before image quality becomes visibly degraded.

The tool will try to optimize it further, but the savings are usually marginal. You are better off just downloading the original if it is already small enough.

Vector charts and line art stay crisp. The risk is with high-resolution photos embedded in the PDF, which may get compressed aggressively and lose detail.

Probably not without significant quality loss. Scanned textbooks are image-based, so 200 pages at 1 MB would mean roughly 5 KB per page, which is too low for readable text. Consider splitting by chapter instead.

PDF structure, fonts, and metadata have a fixed overhead. If your document contains embedded fonts or complex vector paths, those bytes cannot be compressed away, so the final file may land at 1.1–1.3 MB.