PAN Card Photo Resizer for NSDL and UTIITSL

A PAN application stops when the portal rejects your photo or signature. The reason is almost always the file, not your face: the wrong pixel size, a file above the KB limit, or a phone picture with a grey background. This PAN card photo resizer fixes all three in under a minute.

Choose Protean (NSDL), Protean DSC or UTIITSL, and the tool loads the correct pixels, DPI and maximum KB for you. You frame the picture, check the green ticks and download. Your photo never leaves your phone or computer.

Protean (formerly NSDL e-Gov) and UTIITSL both issue the same PAN card, but each portal checks files differently. Use the size for the portal where you fill in Form 49A or 49AA.

Pixel sizes follow from the official centimetre size and DPI: 2.5 cm at 200 DPI equals 197 pixels. Portals sometimes update their limits, so compare these numbers with the instructions on your application page before you submit.

1. 1

   Upload your photo

   Tap Upload Photo and pick a recent, front-facing picture. JPG, PNG and WEBP files from any phone work.

2. 2

   Pick PAN Photo and your portal

   Select Protean (NSDL), Protean DSC or UTIITSL. The crop box changes to the right shape instantly.

3. 3

   Frame your face

   Drag and zoom until your full face and the top of your shoulders sit inside the green box. Use the brightness slider if the room was dark.

4. 4

   Check the ticks and download

   The checklist confirms the pixels, KB and DPI. Click Download JPG, then switch to PAN Signature and repeat for your signature.

Sign on plain white paper with a black ballpoint or gel pen. Take a photo in daylight, holding the phone straight above the page. Then upload it and choose PAN Signature.

• ✓ Auto-crop finds your signature and removes the empty paper around it.
• ✓ Clean background turns grey, shadowed paper pure white.
• ✓ Black ink gives the strong black-and-white look Protean asks for.
• ✓ Exact size: 354 × 157 px for Protean or 400 × 200 px for UTIITSL, always under the KB limit.

Need a signature for an exam form instead? Use our signature resizer, which has presets for SSC, IBPS, UPSC and NEET.

Is your background cluttered? Make a clean white-background photo first with our passport size photo maker, then bring it here to resize it for PAN.

Check the website address where you fill in your form. If it is onlineservices.proteantech.in or an older NSDL link, choose Protean (NSDL). If it is pan.utiitsl.com, choose UTIITSL.

• • Protean uses a tall photo (3.5 × 2.5 cm) and a wide signature (2 × 4.5 cm), both at 200 DPI.
• • UTIITSL uses a square 213 × 213 px photo at 300 DPI and keeps it under 30 KB.
• • DSC applicants on Protean face the tightest caps: 20 KB for the photo and 10 KB for the signature.

One upload works for every portal. Switch the preset and download a second copy if you are unsure.

Your PAN photo and signature are identity documents. Many free resizers upload them to a server first. This tool does the cropping, cleaning and compression inside your browser, so nobody else receives a copy. It works on Android phones, iPhones and computers, needs no login and adds no watermark.

Need to shrink another document? Try our image compressor or reduce photo size to 50 KB.