Compress an image to 2 MB
Three steps. The algorithm does the searching; you just state the limit.
Upload the scan or photo
Drop a JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, AVIF, or GIF onto Sukat’s drop zone. iPhone HEIC scans of physical documents work directly — no convert-to-JPG detour.
Set 2 MB as the limit
Type 2 in the Maximum File Size field and pick MB. Choose JPEG for document portals that require JPG, or WebP for web use where 20% extra headroom helps.
Convert and download
Click Convert & Download. Sukat binary-searches for the highest quality that fits under 2 MB and saves the file locally.
When a 2 MB image matters
2 MB is loose enough to keep nearly every photograph at full resolution and visually identical to the source — and it’s the cap that document-handling systems converge on for that reason.
- KYC document portals. Aadhaar, PAN, passport, and driver’s licence scans submitted to banks, brokerages, fintech wallets and SIM-card providers cap each supporting image at 2 MB.
- Legal-document uploads. Court e-filing systems, RTI portals, arbitration submission platforms, and tribunal evidence rooms accept supporting scans at 2 MB per page.
- Government forms accepting full-resolution photos. Where a portal needs the full original (not a tightly-cropped 50 KB thumbnail), 2 MB is the standard upper bound.
- Shopify hero galleries. Above-the-fold product photography looks best at 2 MB and full resolution — the Shopify CDN serves resized variants downstream.
- Magazine cover-art uploads. Substack covers, Ghost feature images, and Medium publication banners benefit from the extra detail at this cap.
- Archive-quality scans. Personal records, family-photo scanning projects, and small-library digitisation jobs at a 2 MB-per-image cap preserve detail without runaway storage costs.
- High-resolution real-estate listings. Zillow, Redfin, Compass, and luxury portals accept up to 2 MB per gallery photo — targeting the cap exactly preserves the most detail downstream.
Built around an exact 2 MB ceiling
At looser caps the question shifts. The job isn’t “shrink hard” — it’s “preserve everything possible under a fixed cap, and don’t overshoot.”
Hits 2 MB precisely, never overshoots
Document portals reject the file at 2.01 MB. Sukat’s binary search lands you under the ceiling, typically inside 5–10 KB of it, after roughly seven re-encodes. You don’t guess at quality 95 and then resubmit when the file is 2.3 MB.
Original dimensions preserved on nearly every photo
2 MB is enough for a 4000-pixel JPEG at quality 90+ for typical content. Sukat’s algorithm reduces quality first and only downscales as a last resort — so your full-resolution KYC scan stays at full resolution. Visible-quality output is identical to the source for most images at this cap.
The WebP gap holds at 2 MB
For destinations that accept it, WebP at 2 MB delivers roughly 20% more headroom than JPEG — meaning a sharper image at the same file size, or the same image at a noticeably lower size. For document portals that require JPG, JPEG at 2 MB is already visually indistinguishable from the original on every screen short of professional print proofing.
HEIC-aware
iPhone scans of physical documents (Notes app, Files app scans) come out as HEIC by default. Sukat decodes HEIC directly — the doc-portal-friendly JPG conversion happens in the same pass as the compression. Most online compressors fail silently on HEIC input.
Your KYC scan never leaves your browser
Compression runs entirely in your browser via the Canvas API. Your KYC scan, identity document, or legal evidence file never reaches a Sukat server — or any other server. Verify by switching to airplane mode after the page loads. For files this sensitive, that’s the property that matters.