Where do the rules come from?

From each portal’s own notice, information bulletin or help page, read on the day shown on the portal’s page here. A check runs every month that reads each source again; a page whose source changed says so until it is read again.

What if my photo is too small?

A picture is enlarged a little when a portal asks for more pixels than it has, and no more than twice its size, because beyond that it blurs. The card then says to take a new photo or scan again at a higher resolution.

A portal asks for at least 20 KB and my signature is 12 KB. What happens?

The tool first encodes the picture sharper; when it is still under the minimum, it adds a comment inside the file that every reader skips, so the file reaches the minimum without the picture changing. Portals count the file, not the picture.

Portal-ready uploads

Make your photo, signature and documents fit the rules of an Indian exam, job or bank portal, a US visa, passport, immigration, job or tax portal, or an Irish passport, immigration or welfare service, in one go: cropped, resized, compressed, checked and named, in your browser.

Quick facts

Takes: The photographs, signatures, thumb impressions, declarations and PDF or scanned documents an exam board, recruiter, bank, passport office, visa service or immigration portal in India, the United States or Ireland asks for, as JPG, PNG or PDF, several at a time.
Gives: Each file cropped to the proportions the portal names, drawn at its pixel size, encoded inside its size window, declaring its resolution when the portal names one, and named after the portal and the item; with a card per file that says which rules it meets.
Runs: In your browser. The files are never uploaded; the rules come with the page.
Plan: Free, with no account and no watermark: 10 tasks a day, up to 10 pictures at a time, each up to 50 MB. Pro has no daily count and takes up to 50 pictures, each up to 500 MB.

Proportions, then pixels, then bytes

A portal states its rules as a file type, a size in kilobytes or megabytes, pixel dimensions and sometimes proportions or a resolution. The tool keeps the middle of the picture at the proportions asked for (a 3:4 passport photograph, a 3:1 signature, the square of a US visa photo), draws it at the pixel size the portal prefers or inside the bounds it allows, then encodes it as JPG at the highest quality that stays under the size limit. A file below the portal’s minimum is encoded sharper first; when it is still too small, a comment that every reader skips brings it to the minimum, since portals count the file, not the picture. A PDF is compressed with the same engine as Compress PDF, down to the limit, and its page count is checked. A photographed document is drawn no larger than an A4 page at 300 DPI before it is brought under the limit, so a 2 MB cap is met by fewer bytes, not a blurrier scan.

Portals write “20 KB to 50 KB” or “under 5 MB” without saying whether a kilobyte is 1000 or 1024 bytes, and their forms differ. The tool reads both ends strictly: a minimum counts 1024-byte kilobytes and a maximum 1000-byte ones, so a file that passes here passes either form. What software cannot do, the card says: a photograph with too few pixels for the size asked, a blurred scan, a background that is not white.

Measured on our sample photo

The code as it ships on this site, run in the browser on 2026-10-29 (build dd84427): the sample photo (163 kB, 3000 × 2000 px) made to fit the photograph rules of 5 portals. SBI’s result is exactly its minimum: the picture encoded sharper was still under 20 KB, so a comment brought it there.
Portal	Asked for	After	Time
SBI	20 KB to 50 KB, 200 × 230 px	20 kB, 200 × 230 px	2.4 s
UPSC	20 KB to 300 KB, 350 × 350 to 1000 × 1000 px	41 kB, 1000 × 667 px	0.6 s
GATE	5 KB to 600 KB, 200 × 260 to 530 × 690 px, width ÷ height 0.66 to 0.89	23 kB, 530 × 684 px	0.6 s
US visa (DS-160, DS-260)	up to 240 KB, 600 × 600 px, square	25 kB, 600 × 600 px	0.6 s
Irish Passport Online	up to 9 MB, at least 715 × 951 px	174 kB, 3000 × 2000 px	0.6 s

The portals

Each portal has a page of its own with its rules, where they were read and when. The Indian pages cover the examination boards, recruiters and banks; the American ones the visa, passport, immigration, job and tax portals; the Irish ones the passport, immigration and welfare services.

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United States

Ireland

Where the rules come from

Every rule is read from the portal’s own notice, information bulletin, help page or guide, named on its page with the day it was read. Portals change their rules without notice, so a check runs every month that reads each source again and looks for the figures it stated; a source that moved or changed marks the page “to be verified” until it is read again, and every page carries a link to report a change. A few government sites turn automated readers away: those pages are read by hand, through the authority’s own mirror where it has one, and the page says when the site could not be reached at all.

What it cannot do

Fix what the picture shows. A dark background, a cap, closed eyes or a blurred scan are for the camera or the scanner; the card names the portal’s advice but cannot apply it.
Know a portal’s rules the day they change. Each page shows the source and the day it was read, a monthly check reads the sources again, and a link on every page reports a change.
Turn a picture into a PDF item. A portal that asks for a certificate as PDF needs the PDF: make it with Images to PDF first.

If something goes wrong

The card says the picture has too few pixels: The portal asks for more pixels than the picture has, and enlarging it further would blur it. Take a new photo at the camera’s full size, or scan at 300 DPI.
One of the images can't be used. Try saving it as JPG or PNG.: The browser could not read this picture format. Save it as JPG or PNG in the program it came from.
The portal still refuses the file: Compare the portal’s current form with the rules on the page here; if they differ, use the link on the page to report the change and we correct it within a day.

About Portal-ready uploads

Portal-ready uploads turns the files you have into the files a portal accepts. In India, UPSC, SSC, NEET, JEE Main, GATE, CUET, UGC NET, IBPS, SBI and RRB each state a format, a size window and pixel dimensions for the photograph, the signature and the documents; in the United States the visa, Diversity Visa, passport renewal, USCIS, NVC, USAJOBS, ACT and IRS uploads state a format, a size limit and, for a photo, a square of 600 to 1200 pixels; in Ireland, Passport Online, the immigration portal, MyWelfare and the citizenship form state theirs. Choose the portal, add your files, say which is which, and get each one cropped, resized, compressed, named and checked against every rule, in your browser.

Updated October 27, 2026

How to use Portal-ready uploads

Choose the portal, then add your photo, signature, thumb impression or documents.
Say what each file is; the tool guesses from the file name and you can correct it.
Choose Make them fit, read the card under each file, and download the ones that fit.

Frequently asked questions

Where do the rules come from?: From each portal’s own notice, information bulletin or help page, read on the day shown on the portal’s page here. A check runs every month that reads each source again; a page whose source changed says so until it is read again.
What if my photo is too small?: A picture is enlarged a little when a portal asks for more pixels than it has, and no more than twice its size, because beyond that it blurs. The card then says to take a new photo or scan again at a higher resolution.
A portal asks for at least 20 KB and my signature is 12 KB. What happens?: The tool first encodes the picture sharper; when it is still under the minimum, it adds a comment inside the file that every reader skips, so the file reaches the minimum without the picture changing. Portals count the file, not the picture.