🇮🇳 5 DOCUMENT TOOLS

Government Photo Tools for Indian Documents

Passport, PAN, Aadhaar, exam forms and signatures each demand a different size, a different orientation and a different file weight, and getting any one of them wrong means the form comes back. Pick the document you are filing for. Everything runs in your browser and no file is uploaded. Start from Image Tools if you need something more general.

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Document tools
4 sizes
Photo frames covered
200 / 300
DPI, written and verified
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Files uploaded anywhere

Which Government Photo Tool Do You Need?

Start from the form you are filling in, not from the pixel size you were given. The size follows from the document, and half the sizes circulating online belong to a different one.

The mistake that costs people the most time

Aadhaar is 35 x 45 mm portrait. A passport photo is also 35 x 45 mm, but the Passport Seva upload is specified in pixels as 630 x 810. PAN is 25 x 35 mm portrait, which is smaller than both. A PAN signature is 45 x 20 mm landscape. These are four different requirements that look interchangeable in a list and are not, which is why several sites publish 531 x 413 as a PAN photo size when that number is simply the Aadhaar figure written backwards. Pick the tool by document and the size comes with it.

Identity documents

Passport, PAN and Aadhaar. Each has its own frame, its own KB window and its own portal.

Photo or signature? They are different jobs

A photograph is portrait, carries detail and almost always lands above its file size ceiling, so quality has to come down. A signature is landscape, is mostly white paper with a few thousand dark pixels, and compresses so far that it lands below its minimum instead. Those need opposite fixes. If your problem is a photo, start with passport photo, PAN card photo or Aadhaar photo. If it is a signature that keeps failing a size check, go to signature resize. If your exam portal wants both in one sitting, exam form photo carries the presets side by side.

Exams, banking and signatures

Specs that change with every notification cycle, so every preset links the source you should confirm against.

No tool matches that search. Try a document name like passport, PAN or Aadhaar, or a size like 35x45mm.
If your requirement is a plain number, not a document

Not every form is a government form. When you have been handed a pixel size with no document attached, image resizer is simpler and faster. For a weight limit only, use resize image to KB. If the dimensions are already right and the file is just heavy, compress to 50KB holds the pixels and lowers quality instead. To set 200 or 300 DPI on a file you already have, use DPI changer, and to settle a shape before cropping anything the aspect ratio calculator never opens a file at all. Those all live under image resize and DPI tools.

Four Steps, Whichever Document You Are Filing

Every tool in this category follows the same shape, so learning one means you already know the rest.

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Pick the Document
Choose the tool by the form you are filling in. The correct size, orientation and file weight follow from that rather than from a number you found in a search result.
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Add and Crop
Drop in a JPG, PNG, WebP or HEIC, or import from a URL, Drive or Dropbox. The crop box locks to the preset shape, so a non-compliant frame is not reachable.
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Hit the Size Rule
Exact output pixels, the KB window respected in both directions, and the right DPI written into the file header and then verified by reading the bytes back.
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Read the Checklist
Every tool separates what it verified from what it cannot judge, then hands you the file. Print sheets are offered where a physical form actually needs them.

Built for Documents, Not Just for Pixels

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Your ID Never Leaves
Canvas and JavaScript in your own browser. A form that pairs your face with your signature is not something to hand a stranger's server for a resize.
Verified, Not Assumed
Dimensions, file size, format, DPI tag and a background sample are checked and shown. What a browser cannot judge is listed separately as yours.
No Invented Numbers
Where official sources contradict each other, both options are offered and flagged rather than one being picked and presented as settled fact.
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Both Ends of the Range
Forms set a floor as well as a ceiling. A file that lands too light is as much a rejection as one too heavy, and these tools handle both directions.
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Print Sheets That Fit
Where a physical form needs pasted photographs, the sheet is built at the preset's own DPI so nothing is enlarged, on the 6 x 4 inch size every shop prints.
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Works on a Phone
Take the photo, crop it, meet the size rule and submit, all on the same device, without the picture ever going anywhere else.

Built for Everyone Filing an Indian Form

Anyone who has been handed a pixel size, a KB limit and a DPI number on the same page and told to get all three right.

Passport Applicants PAN and Tax Filers UPSC and SSC Aspirants Banking Exam Candidates Parents Applying for Minors NRIs Filing from Abroad Cyber Cafes and Studios Tax Consultants and CAs

Four Rules, Checked Separately

Failing one rule looks the same as failing all four

A document photo is judged on dimensions, file weight, background and framing, and each is checked on its own. Getting three right and one wrong produces the same rejection as getting everything wrong, usually with no explanation of which rule you broke. The file weight rule is the one people miss most, because it has a floor as well as a ceiling: a photo compressed too hard is refused just as firmly as one that is too heavy. Start with passport photo or PAN card photo and the size rule is applied for you in both directions.

Specifications change, and sources disagree

India moved passport photographs to the ICAO 35x45mm standard, and the older 2x2 inch square is now a leading cause of rejection. Passport and OCI requirements have since diverged, and published OCI guidance contradicts itself. NSDL and UTIITSL process the same PAN application to different photo specifications. UPSC and SSC now capture some photographs live by webcam rather than by upload. Every tool here links the official portal for its document and asks you to confirm before uploading, because a specification that changed once will change again. Check exam form photo against the current notification PDF, and Aadhaar photo against UIDAI directly.

Common Questions

Pick by the document, not by a pixel size you were given. Passport photo covers the 35x45mm frame and the 630x810 Passport Seva upload. PAN card photo covers the 25x35mm NSDL portrait and the landscape signature. Aadhaar photo covers the 35x45mm print. Signature resize handles exam and banking signatures, and exam form photo carries the UPSC, SSC and IBPS presets together.
Because they are issued by different authorities under different rules. Passport and Aadhaar both use a 35x45mm frame, though passport uploads are specified in pixels instead. PAN is 25x35mm, which is smaller than both. They look interchangeable when written in a list, which is exactly why the wrong one gets submitted so often.
No. That figure is the Aadhaar 413x531 portrait with the digits written backwards, and it circulates widely enough that several sites publish it as a PAN specification. Using it produces a landscape photograph where a portrait one belongs. None of the tools here offer it as a preset, and the PAN tool explains where the number came from.
No. Every tool in this category processes files through the Canvas API inside your own browser. Nothing is transmitted, queued or stored, and the pages keep working after the connection drops. That matters more here than on an ordinary image tool, because these forms often pair your photograph with your signature.
No, and that is a deliberate decision rather than a missing feature. Browser-side background removal guesses which pixels belong to the subject and guesses worst at hair, ears and shoulders, which leaves a halo an examiner notices. Instead the tools sample the corners and the top of the frame and report whether the background meets the rule.
They check what software can check: exact dimensions, file size against the limit, format, the DPI tag read back from the finished bytes, and a background sample. They do not judge face coverage, expression, glasses or how recent the photo is, and every tool lists those separately as your responsibility rather than implying a pass.
It depends on the document. NSDL specifies 200 DPI for PAN, while passport and Aadhaar prints use 300. DPI adds no pixels and changes nothing on screen; it tells a printer how densely to lay the existing pixels down, which is what makes a file print at the right physical size. Each tool writes the value its document specifies and then verifies it.
That is normal and it needs the opposite fix to a photo. A signature is mostly white paper with a few thousand dark pixels, so it compresses far below a 40 KB floor even at maximum quality. The right response is to raise quality rather than compress further, which the PAN and signature tools do automatically, reporting the real figure instead of padding the file.
Where a physical form needs photographs affixed, the relevant tool offers a print sheet tiled onto a 6 x 4 inch canvas, which is the size every photo shop in India prints. Each sheet is built at its preset's own DPI so no copy is enlarged, and the DPI tag is written and verified on the sheet as well as on the single file.
No. UCT Tools is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to UIDAI, the Passport Seva Programme, the Income Tax Department, Protean eGov Technologies, UTIITSL, UPSC, SSC, IBPS or any other government body. Requirements also change without notice, so every tool links the official portal and asks you to confirm before you upload.

Get the Size Right the First Time

Five document tools, locked crop shapes and an honest checklist of what was verified. Free, no sign-up, and nothing leaves your device.

Start with Passport Photo