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[SOLVED!] On an Android phone is there an open source method of compressing files? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have to submit a document for employment and they want my passport but my passport photo is 5.49 MB and they say you can't upload anything more than 5 MB. How can I shrink that file on my android phone without paying some service?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

5+ MB sounds like a PNG or the like. Open in photo editor and save as jpg. That should fix it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Thank you! I don't have exactly the option but you put me in the right direction and I figured it out. Thank you!! got it down to 4.79 MB

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Dear OP, please edit the post title and insert [Solved] to prevent a 1000 more answers in the coming 5 years in this thread (and in the new comments time line), thank you :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Do'h! ok done 😁

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Btw, media formats are not really compressible (e.g. zip, 7z, gz, etc.), because they are already compressed by specialized algorithms (png, jpg, avif, etc.).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Png to jpg should be more like 5x compression but maybe something else was going on. Anyway it sounds like the immediate is handled.