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How passport and ID photo rules work, and how OpenPhotoId meets them on your own device.
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Passport photo rejected? Common reasons and how to check yours
The published reasons a U.S. passport photo gets rejected, the rule behind each one, and how to check your own photo before you submit it.
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What a passport photo check can measure, and what it cannot
OpenPhotoId runs twelve checks on every photo it makes and shows the value each one measured next to the band it was judged against. This is the full list, with the numbers a US passport photo reports, and the things a checklist cannot see.
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How OpenPhotoId makes a passport photo without uploading it
A passport photo has to meet rules most people never see: head height, eye line, background colour, and for an online portal, a file size window. This is what OpenPhotoId does between choosing a photo and downloading the file, why none of it needs a server, and what it cannot judge for you.