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PDF upload caps on public portals (2026): file size limits of 180 government, university and job portals in six countries Lorenzo Bernal (25121787) Information systems for sustainable development and the public good PDF file size limit e-government online portals digital inclusion document upload <p dir="ltr">How large can a PDF be before a government, university or job portal rejects it? This dataset records the published PDF upload limit of 180 portals in France, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain and India (181 entries), each with the exact wording of the limit, the date checked and a link to the official page where it was found. 62 entries publish no limit at all.</p><p dir="ltr">Key figures (median published cap): France 5 MB, United States 15 MB, United Kingdom 5.5 MB, Germany 10 MB, Spain 10 MB, India 500 KB. Indian exam and recruitment forms are the strictest group, with caps between 150 and 500 KB.</p><p dir="ltr">The data was collected in September 2026 for the EasyPDF study <a href="https://www.easypdf.fr/blog/pdf-file-size-statistics-2026" target="_blank">The 1 MB Problem: PDF File Size Statistics for 2026</a> (French version: <a href="https://www.easypdf.fr/fr/blog/statistiques-taille-fichier-pdf-2026" target="_blank">Le problème du 1 Mo</a>). Portal by portal pages: <a href="https://www.easypdf.fr/pdf-size-limits" target="_blank">U.S. portals</a> and <a href="https://www.easypdf.fr/fr/taille-max-pdf" target="_blank">French portals</a>.</p><p dir="ltr">Files: all-portals.csv and all-portals.json (all 181 entries), summary-by-country.csv, datapackage.json (Frictionless Data descriptor) and README.md (columns, method and limits). Source repository and corrections: <a href="https://github.com/Lorenzino69/pdf-upload-caps" target="_blank">github.com/Lorenzino69/pdf-upload-caps</a>. Version 1.1.1, also archived on Zenodo (<a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22845060" target="_blank">10.5281/zenodo.22845060</a>) and data.gouv.fr.</p><p dir="ltr">Method: each portal's own help pages, FAQs and technical documentation were searched for a published limit on uploaded PDF files; figures quoted only by third-party sites were not used. Portals change their limits without notice: check source_url before relying on a figure.</p> 2026-09-28T10:43:47Z Dataset Dataset 10.6084/m9.figshare.34013031.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/PDF_upload_caps_on_public_portals_2026_file_size_limits_of_180_government_university_and_job_portals_in_six_countries/34013031 CC BY 4.0