Photo and signature size for Aadhaar, PAN, passport and voter ID
Pick the ID your form names. Passport, PAN and voter ID take an upload. The photo on an Aadhaar card is taken live at the kendra — this page cannot change it.
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How it works
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Check your ID's exact spec, its official source and the date we last checked it — including whether that ID takes an upload at all.
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Questions
Which Indian IDs take a photo you upload, and which capture it live?
Passport (Passport Seva's digital photo), PAN (the NSDL/Protean and UTIITSL uploads) and voter ID (the Form 6 photograph) take files you upload, each with its own official spec. Aadhaar does not — UIDAI treats the photograph as a biometric captured live at the Aadhaar Seva Kendra, so no online upload changes the photo on the card.
Why do the KB limits differ from one ID to another?
Because each issuing authority writes its own upload rule — there is no single government photo spec. PAN portals publish hard limits (up to 50 KB on the NSDL/Protean eSign upload, under 30 KB for the UTIITSL photo), while Passport Seva and ECI publish no KB limit at all in their official wording, and Aadhaar has no upload. A site that shows one KB number for every ID is inventing at least some of them.
What photo does the voter ID application (Form 6) need?
ECI's Form 6 guidelines ask for a recent good quality passport size unsigned colour photograph, 4.5 x 3.5 cm, with white background — eyes open and both edges of the face clearly visible. That is the whole official spec: ECI publishes no KB limit, pixel rule or file format for the online upload. Resizer sites claiming 50 KB, 10-100 KB or 2 MB contradict each other and cite no ECI source.
Why is the photo on my voter ID card smaller than the one I uploaded?
The small photo printed on the EPIC card — 2.4 x 1.8 cm, around 320 x 240 pixels — is generated from ECI's own database, not from your uploaded file. It is a print spec, not an upload rule, so no resizer needs to target it. What you control is the Form 6 photograph: 4.5 x 3.5 cm, colour, white background.
Is the 2 x 2 inch photo used for Indian IDs?
No. The 2 x 2 inch (51 x 51 mm) square photo is the US-visa/OCI consular spec. Indian IDs use their own frames: passport and the Aadhaar certificate proforma take the 3.5 x 4.5 cm passport-size shape, voter ID's Form 6 asks for 4.5 x 3.5 cm, and the PAN portals fix their own sizes — see the table above.
Is my photo or signature uploaded to a server?
No. Your photo and signature stay in the browser on this page. Nothing is uploaded — and nothing goes to UIDAI, ECI or any portal either; you download the file and upload it yourself on the official site.
Everything else about this tool
Photo size by ID — official specs, checked and dated
| Exam | Dimensions | File size | Format | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Passport Seva — photo upload (ICAO guidelines) | 630 x 810 px, colour, white background | no KB cap in the official wording | Digital photo | 2026-08-12 |
| PAN — NSDL/Protean photo (online eSign upload) | 3.5 x 2.5 cm (about 197 x 276 px at 200 DPI) | up to 50 KB | JPG only | 2026-08-10 |
| PAN — UTIITSL photo (online upload) | 213 x 213 px, 300 DPI (enforced exactly) | under 30 KB | JPEG | 2026-08-10 |
| Aadhaar — photo on the card (UIDAI biometric FAQ) | Captured live at the Aadhaar Seva Kendra — the photograph is a biometric | no upload, no KB cap | Live capture | 2026-08-12 |
| Voter ID — Form 6 photograph (ECI guidelines) | 4.5 x 3.5 cm, colour, unsigned, white background, eyes open, both face edges visible | no KB cap or format published by ECI | Colour photo | 2026-08-12 |
| IBPS (PO/Clerk/RRB) photo — exam upload | 200 x 230 px preferred | 20-50 KiB | JPG | 2026-09-01 |
Sources: Passport Seva ICAO photograph guidelines PDF (passportindia.gov.in, checked 2026-08-12); Protean eSign article and UTIITSL guidelines via the APOnline PAN process document (checked 2026-08-10); UIDAI biometric FAQ (old.uidai.gov.in, checked 2026-08-12); ECI Form 6 guidelines and the Form 6 PDF (voters.eci.gov.in, checked 2026-08-12). The 413 x 531 px and 197 x 276 px equivalents are derived from official cm + DPI values, not separately published. The voter-photo KB caps on other resizer sites (50 KB, 10-100 KB, 2 MB — mutually contradictory) have no official ECI source. The IBPS row comes from the exam's official notification via its SarkariDoc page.
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