Download and install the latest version of Filestar.
Right click on one or more Pcds file(s) on your desktop and select Convert with Filestar.
Type compress in the search box.
Press Compress.
Or let an AI agent do it: filestarcli -i photo.pcds -c "compress" (how).
Let your AI agent compress PCDS
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents can do this on your computer with Filestar. Your files stay on your machine.
Install Filestar and add it to your agents:
npm install -g filestar
filestarcli agent install
Then ask your agent:
“Use Filestar to compress PCDS in my Downloads folder”
Or run it yourself:
filestarcli -i photo.pcds -c "compress"
Runs on your computer, so your files stay on it. Works on Windows, macOS and Linux. 50 free conversions with the npm install, no account needed.
Can my AI agent compress PCDS?
Yes. Install the Filestar CLI with npm install -g filestar and your agent can run filestarcli -i photo.pcds -c "compress" on your computer, so your files stay on it.
Photo CD is a system designed by Kodak for digitizing and saving photos onto a CD. Launched in 1991 the discs were designed to hold nearly 100 high quality images, scanned prints and slides using special proprietary encoding.
