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Optimize PDF size using Power Automate (Microsoft Flow)

Sometimes you need to reduce a PDF file size and it’s easy to do with Compress PDF document from Plumsail Documents package.

In this example, we will work with files from a SharePoint documents library and use the default SharePoint trigger and actions. You can use some other system. Power Automate (Microsoft Flow) has a lot of connectors for different systems. Here are just a few of them:

  • SharePoint

  • Box

  • OneDrive

  • Google Drive

  • Dropbox

  • SFTP

  • File System

The plan is the following:

  • The flow will start with a SharePoint trigger When a file is created or modified in a folder

When a file is created or modified in a folder trigger Compress PDF document action

Note

Curently, the action is only available in custom connector. Please find out how to create one in this article .

  • And save the result to a SharePoint folder

Note

Please don’t forget to specify the .pdf extension.

Create compressed PDF

This is the flow

Compress PDF flow

Conclusion

We showed one simple example where you can use Compress PDF document action. The same action could be used to compress many PDF files in one flow. You can get all files from one folder and compress them in a loop.