Our Mission

Getting an official passport, visa, or government ID photo has historically been frustrating, overpriced, and inconvenient. Commercial photo booths and pharmacies often charge upwards of $15 to $25 for a pair of prints, while online tools frequently compromise your personal privacy by storing biometric portraits on remote servers.

ID Photo Size was created to solve this problem. Our mission is to provide a completely free, easy-to-use, and strictly private utility that enables anyone with a smartphone or digital camera to create official, submission-ready photos that comply with government regulations around the globe.

100% On-Device Privacy

Your face is your most sensitive biometric identifier. We believe you should never have to upload personal photos to unfamiliar cloud servers just to crop them or change the background.

Unlike typical web tools that send your photos to backend processing servers, ID Photo Size executes entirely on your device. Using modern web technologies — including client-side WebAssembly (Wasm), ONNX Runtime Web, and browser Canvas APIs — our neural network models run directly inside your device's memory.

Biometric Compliance Technology

Passports and visas are rejected most often due to simple framing and posture mistakes: head tilt, off-center eyes, harsh shadows, or non-compliant background colors. ID Photo Size incorporates smart on-device photo analysis to help you catch these issues before you submit:

• Automatic Face Centering: Accurately positions the crop oval around your facial landmarks in accordance with official chin-to-crown height guidelines.
• Eye Level & Straightening: Calculates eye horizontal tilt and helps you align your face perfectly perpendicular to the camera.
• Expression & Gaze Detection: Analyzes whether eyes are open, gaze is directed straight at the camera, and mouth is closed with a neutral expression.
• AI Background Segmentation: Isolates the subject and replaces distracting home backgrounds with pure white or light grey, retaining delicate hair contours.
• Precision Sizing & DPI: Exports standard print layouts (e.g. 4×6 inch, A4) or digital files calibrated to 300 DPI with exact millimeter specifications.

International Standards Adherence

All dimension presets and guidelines provided on ID Photo Size are rigorously verified against official government documentation and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Document 9303 specifications for Machine Readable Travel Documents (MRTDs).

We maintain detailed specifications for over 40 countries, including the United States (2×2 inch / 51×51 mm), United Kingdom (35×45 mm), European Schengen Area (35×45 mm), India (35×45 mm & 50×50 mm e-Visa), Canada (50×70 mm), Australia, Singapore, and many more.

Editorial Guidelines & Contact

Our guides, tutorials, and requirement articles are researched and written by our technical and document compliance team. When immigration authorities update their photographic rules — such as tightened regulations on digital retouching or eyewear bans — we promptly revise our tools and guides.

Have feedback, noticed an updated government requirement, or want to suggest a new country preset? We would love to hear from you: