How to Compress Legal Contracts and PDF Documents While Preserving Digital Signatures
Learn how to compress legal contracts and PDF documents without invalidating digital signatures or risking sensitive data using client-side WebAssembly.
## The Challenge of Compressing Legal Contracts and Signed Documents In legal, notarial, and corporate environments, exchanging contracts, powers of attorney, deeds, and business agreements in PDF format is standard practice. However, when scanned annexes or multiple cryptographic certificates are attached, these files frequently exceed 10MB or 20MB. This creates major hurdles when attempting to send them via email or upload them to judicial filing platforms and document management systems with strict limits of 1MB, 2MB, or 500KB. The critical issue arises during compression: most standard too
