EPFO documents under 2 MB
EPFO's online services ask members for supporting documents — date-of-birth proof for a correction, a marriage certificate for a name change, a cancelled cheque for a claim — with attachments capped at around 2 MB. A 2 MB budget is roomy for one page and tight for a scanned stack. KBcut first checks whether your PDF already fits and hands it back untouched if it does; only oversized scans are re-rendered, at the highest resolution that stays under 2 MB.
What people upload here
- Date-of-birth proof: birth certificate, Class 10 certificate or passport
- Name correction support: marriage certificate, gazette notification, PAN
- Cancelled cheque or passbook page for bank details
- Employer letters or joint declaration supporting documents
What the EPFO member services upload checks
- Attachments are capped at about 2 MB each; some older screens use a smaller cap and say so in the error.
- PDF is the safe format. Where JPEG is allowed, KBcut can output JPEG too.
- Details must match your UAN records exactly — the employer and EPFO both review the scan.
- If a document is already under the cap, upload it as it is: re-rendering never improves a file.
- For bundles bigger than 2 MB even after compression, split them and attach the pages the form actually asks for.
Caps on this page follow published portal guidance and commonly reported limits as of September 2026. The portal's own notice or on-screen error always wins — type its number into the cap box if it differs.
Why a generic compressor gets this wrong
The most common mistake with generous caps is over-compressing. A 700 KB DigiLocker certificate that already fits gets run through a compressor, loses its text layer, and looks worse for no reason. KBcut refuses to do that: if the file is inside the cap with Colour selected, it returns your original bytes with a note. When a scan is over the cap, it starts at 300 DPI and steps down, so a 12 MB phone-scanned passport becomes a sharp PDF just under 2 MB rather than a blurry 200 KB one. If a long document still will not fit, KBcut offers to split it into parts under 2 MB instead.
How to do it
- Select the PDF or photos of the document.
- Keep the cap at 2 MB (2048 KB) and Colour on.
- Press Cut to size. If it says the file already fits, upload the original; otherwise download the compressed PDF.
Questions
It says "already fits" and gave me the same file.
That is deliberate. Your file was under 2 MB, so the best version is the original — text and digital signatures intact.
What if the portal says the limit is 500 KB?
Type 500 in the cap box. The number on the screen you are uploading to always wins.
Scanned passport has both pages.
Select both photos together to make one PDF, or one PDF with both pages — at 2 MB there is plenty of room.
Is my PF data safe?
Nothing is uploaded to KBcut. The files stay on your device until you upload them to EPFO yourself.
Will compressing break a digitally signed certificate?
KBcut returns a signed PDF untouched when it already fits, which keeps the signature valid. If it does not fit, compressing would break the signature — split it or ask the issuer for a smaller copy.