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French Visa & Residence Permit PDF Compression (ANEF)
The ANEF portal used for French residence permit applications enforces a fairly tight per-document size limit. This tool compresses your contracts, proof-of-address, and certificate scans to fit while keeping the text sharp.
Official compliance criteria
| Max file size | 2MB |
|---|---|
| Output format | Standard PDF |
| Color modes | color, grayscale |
| Text & vectors | Never rasterized |
| Operations | extract pages, compress |
Source: ANEF (Administration Numérique des Étrangers en France) / Préfecture
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Frequently asked questions
- What's the maximum file size for French Visa & Residence Permit Document Compression?
- The processed file must be under 2MB. Photo & PDF Desk uses adaptive compression, starting from the highest quality setting that still preserves legible text, until the file fits.
- Will compression blur my text or signatures?
- No. Text, form fields, and vector graphics (including scanned signatures saved as vectors) are never rasterized or blurred — only embedded raster images inside the PDF are progressively downsampled to hit the size target.
- What format will I get back?
- A standard PDF, compatible with any PDF reader and upload portal.
- Can I choose specific pages to keep?
- Yes — enter a page range like "1-3,5" in the editor and only those pages are kept before any other processing runs.
- What happens if my document is still too large after compression?
- Try the page-range field to submit only the specific pages ANEF actually needs from a larger multi-page document (e.g. just the signature page of a long lease), rather than the whole file.