The email said my PDF was too large to send. The usual fix — a free online compressor — wanted me to upload a signed contract to a server I know nothing about, then wait in a queue behind a daily limit.
So I went looking for a compressor that never takes the file in the first place, and found Localcraft's Compress PDF: https://tools.sweetai.work/compress-pdf/
It runs entirely in your browser. You drop the PDF in, it compresses on your own device, and you download the result. No upload, no sign-up, no watermark, and no daily cap — which also means it works the same on the tenth file as on the first.
That local processing is the whole point of the site behind it: Localcraft (https://tools.sweetai.work) is a collection of 112 free tools — 44 of them PDF tools, plus image, AI and developer tools — and they all work the same way, in the browser, without your files leaving the machine.
If the file is a contract, an ID scan, or anything you would not email to a stranger, compressing it locally is the version that makes sense.
