# OpenPhotoId

> OpenPhotoId is a free, open-source (MIT or Apache-2.0) passport photo maker for passport, visa and ID photos, in the browser at https://openphotoid.com/. It works offline after the first visit. Pick the document, choose a photo or take one, and download a file checked against the official rules; or run a batch of any size and get a CSV report of which checks each photo passed. No sign-up, no watermark, and nothing is uploaded. Source code: https://gitlab.com/open-photoid/openphotoid

## What it does

- **Finds the face.** Five landmarks locate the head, measure its tilt, and anchor every rule that follows.
- **Separates you from the background.** A matting model produces a soft edge, and a second pass resolves hair at full resolution.
- **Paints the required background, or keeps yours.** The exact colour each document names, such as white for a Japanese passport or light grey for an Australian one. The US, UK, Canadian, South Korean, Singapore and Chinese passports, India's Passport Seva photo and the DV Lottery refuse a photo changed with software, so for those the background is left as it is ("Leave as it is"): the app crops and scales the photo, checks its own background, and changes nothing else.
- **Crops to the rules.** Head height, eye line and centring each have an allowed band; three sliders let you move within them.
- **Checks the result.** Twelve checks run on the finished file, each reporting its measured value and the band it was judged against.
- **Exports for the portal or the print shop.** A JPEG inside the portal's size window, a lossless PNG with the right DPI, or (in the web app and the Android app) a 4x6, 5x7, A4 or Letter sheet tiled with cutting guides. Photos sit edge to edge: a 4x6 in sheet holds six 2 x 2 in photos or eight 35 x 45 mm ones. The sheet is a 300 dpi JPEG the exact size of the paper, so print it at actual size (100%), not fit to page.

## Documents covered

25 documents from 16 countries and the EU. 22 link the official page their rules come from; 3 — ID card 1-inch (China), ID card 2-inch (China) and PAN card (India) — have no single official page and follow common practice.

- Australia, Passport: 413 x 531 px (300 dpi), 35 x 45 mm, light grey background. Rules checked 2026-08-01; official page: https://www.passports.gov.au/help/passport-photos. Before you submit: The Australian Passport Office advises against online passport photo services and apps, citing the risk of identity fraud. OpenPhotoId uploads nothing, but the Office recommends a professional photo provider.
- Brazil, Passport: 591 x 827 px (300 dpi), 50 x 70 mm, white background. Rules checked 2026-10-12; official page: https://www.gov.br/pf/pt-br/assuntos/passaporte/documentacao/lista-brasileiro.
- Canada, Passport: 591 x 827 px (300 dpi), 50 x 70 mm, white background. Rules checked 2026-10-12; official page: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/canadian-passports/photos.html. Before you submit: Canada requires a passport photo taken in person by a commercial photographer or studio, not edited in any way (including filters and AI tools). Use this crop to check the framing; submit the photographer's print.
- China, Passport: 390 x 567 px (300 dpi), 33 x 48 mm, white background. Rules checked 2026-10-21; official page: https://us.china-embassy.gov.cn/lsfw/zj/hzlxz/201903/t20190309_5098803.htm. Before you submit: The Chinese embassy says the photo must not be modified and composite photos are not accepted. Take it against a plain white wall and keep its own background; OpenPhotoId only crops and scales it.
- China, Online visa: 390 x 520 px, 40 KB to 120 KB, white background. Rules checked 2026-10-12; official page: https://ma.china-embassy.gov.cn/lsfw/zytz/202504/t20250427_11605604.htm.
- China, ID card, 1-inch: 295 x 413 px (300 dpi), 25 x 35 mm, white background. Rules checked 2026-08-01; no official page; follows common practice.
- China, ID card, 2-inch: 413 x 626 px (300 dpi), 35 x 53 mm, white background. Rules checked 2026-08-01; no official page; follows common practice.
- European Union, Schengen visa: 413 x 531 px (300 dpi), 35 x 45 mm, white background. Rules checked 2026-10-21; official page: https://uk.diplo.de/uk-en/02/visa/visa-faq-2442852.
- India, Passport, printed: 600 x 600 px (300 dpi), 50.8 x 50.8 mm, white background. Rules checked 2026-10-21; official page: https://www.indianembassynetherlands.gov.in/page/basic-requirements-and-photo-specifications/.
- India, Passport Seva, online: 630 x 810 px, up to 250 KB, white background. Rules checked 2026-10-19; official page: https://eoilima.gov.in/docs/Guidelines%20for%20ICAO%20Compliant%20Photographs%20for%20Passport%20Applications..pdf.
- India, Online visa: 600 x 600 px (300 dpi), 50.8 x 50.8 mm, 10 KB to 300 KB, white background. Rules checked 2026-10-21; official page: https://indianvisaonline.gov.in/evisa/tvoa.html.
- India, OCI card: 900 x 900 px, up to 200 KB, light grey background. Rules checked 2026-10-12; official page: https://ociservices.gov.in/onlineOCI/faq.
- India, PAN card: 295 x 413 px (300 dpi), 25 x 35 mm, 20 KB to 50 KB, white background. Rules checked 2026-08-01; no official page; follows common practice.
- Japan, Passport: 413 x 531 px (300 dpi), 35 x 45 mm, white background. Rules checked 2026-10-12; official page: https://www.pref.osaka.lg.jp/o070140/passport/top/shashin.html.
- Nigeria, Passport: 600 x 800 px, up to 2 MB, white background. Rules checked 2026-10-21; official page: https://passport.immigration.gov.ng/image-compliance.
- Poland, Passport: 781 x 1004 px, 35 x 45 mm, up to 2500 KB, white background. Rules checked 2026-10-21; official page: https://www.gov.pl/web/gov/zdjecie-do-dowodu-lub-paszportu.
- Russia, Passport: 413 x 531 px (300 dpi), 35 x 45 mm, white background. Rules checked 2026-10-12; official page: https://www.kdmid.ru/cons/passports/list-of-documents-required-for-registration-of-foreign-passports/.
- Saudi Arabia, Online visa: 200 x 200 px, 5 KB to 100 KB, white background. Rules checked 2026-08-01; official page: https://visa.visitsaudi.com/Home/PhotoSpecifications.
- Singapore, Passport: 400 x 514 px, 35 x 45 mm, up to 8 MB, white background. Rules checked 2026-10-21; official page: https://www.ica.gov.sg/photo-guidelines. Before you submit: Singapore's ICA says the photo “must not be altered or enhanced in any way”, including with photo editing software; resizing is allowed. Take it against a plain white wall and keep its own background.
- South Korea, Passport: 413 x 531 px, 35 x 45 mm, up to 500 KB, white background. Rules checked 2026-10-12; official page: https://www.passport.go.kr/home/kor/contents.do?menuPos=32. Before you submit: South Korea does not accept passport photos whose background was removed or replaced with editing software. Take the photo against a plain white background; a replaced background can be rejected.
- Türkiye, Passport: 591 x 709 px (300 dpi), 50 x 60 mm, white background. Rules checked 2026-10-21; official page: https://www.nvi.gov.tr/sss-pasaport-hizmetleri. Before you submit: Türkiye's NVI does not accept photocopies or photos reproduced on a computer. Use this file to check the framing, and hand in a print on photo paper, such as one from a photo shop, not a sheet from a home printer.
- United Arab Emirates, ID card: 413 x 531 px (300 dpi), 35 x 45 mm, white background. Rules checked 2026-10-12; official page: https://icp.gov.ae/wp-content/themes/ica_v3/assets/images/servicesGuideEN2024.pdf.
- United Kingdom, Passport: 600 x 771 px, 35 x 45 mm, 50 KB to 10 MB, light grey background. Rules checked 2026-10-21; official page: https://www.gov.uk/photos-for-passports/photo-requirements. Before you submit: GOV.UK says the photo must be “unaltered by computer software”. Take it against a plain cream or light grey wall and keep its own background; OpenPhotoId only crops and scales it.
- United States, Passport: 600 x 600 px (300 dpi), 50.8 x 50.8 mm, 54 KB to 10 MB, white background. Rules checked 2026-10-15; official page: https://travel.state.gov/en/passports/apply/help/photos.html. Before you submit: The US State Department says: “Do not change your photo using computer software, phone apps or filters.” For online renewal: “Do not use any kind of filter or retouching tools to change your appearance.” Take the photo against a plain white or off-white wall and keep its own background; repositioning or cropping it is allowed.
- United States, DV Lottery: 600 x 600 px, up to 240 KB, white background. Rules checked 2026-10-19; official page: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-information-resources/photos.html.

Every entry, with its head-height band and notes: https://openphotoid.com/documents.html

## Facts

- **Free.** Every feature, every photo. There is no paid tier.
- **Nothing is uploaded.** The core is written in Rust and compiled to WebAssembly, and has no HTTP client compiled into it. The face detector and the matting model run on your own device.
- **No account needed.** Nothing on the site is behind a sign-in.
- **Works offline** after the first visit.
- **Open source** under MIT or Apache-2.0.
- The app speaks English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, German, Spanish and Portuguese.

## Limits worth knowing

- A portal can still reject a photo for reasons no software can measure, such as an expression or a reflection on glasses.
- If the document you need is not in the list, it is not supported.
- It runs in any modern browser, on desktop or phone. There are also apps for macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel, https://openphotoid.com/download/mac), Windows (https://openphotoid.com/download/windows) and Android (https://openphotoid.com/download/android); the iPhone/iPad download is coming back soon.
- Tested on iPhone and iPad with iOS 26 and on Android with Chrome. iOS 17 cannot start the models.

## Links

- [OpenPhotoId](https://openphotoid.com/): the app and what it does
- [Privacy policy](https://openphotoid.com/privacy.html)
- [Supported documents](https://openphotoid.com/documents.html): every document with its size, background, file limits and official source
- [US passport photo](https://openphotoid.com/us-passport-photo.html): the 2 x 2 inch US passport photo, its rules and a check example
- [Passport photo size](https://openphotoid.com/passport-photo-size.html): the 25 documents grouped by print size and file size, how many photos fit on each print sheet, and how to print it at actual size
- [Take a passport photo at home](https://openphotoid.com/take-passport-photo-at-home.html): taking the photo with a phone camera, what the checks catch, and when a studio photo is required
- [Indian passport photo](https://openphotoid.com/indian-passport-photo.html): the 630 x 810 px online upload (up to 250 KB, own background kept) and the 2 x 2 inch print, with the OCI and PAN card photos
- [Chinese passport photo](https://openphotoid.com/chinese-passport-photo.html): the 33 x 48 mm Chinese passport photo and the China online visa photo (354-420 x 472-560 px), from the Chinese embassies' pages
- [Singapore passport photo](https://openphotoid.com/singapore-passport-photo.html): the 400 x 514 px file for ICA e-Services and the 35 x 45 mm print, and how to keep your own white background
- [DV Lottery photo](https://openphotoid.com/dv-lottery-photo.html): the 600 x 600 px JPEG of 240 KB or less, head 50-69% of the image, own background kept
- [UK passport photo](https://openphotoid.com/uk-passport-photo.html): GOV.UK's digital (at least 600 x 750 px, 50 KB to 10 MB) and printed (45 x 35 mm) rules, the "unaltered by computer software" rule and the own background kept, and what a photo code is: a link from a photo booth or shop; OpenPhotoId does not provide one, and online applicants can upload their own photo instead
- [Bulk passport photos](https://openphotoid.com/bulk-passport-photos.html): one document for any number of photos, twelve checks on each, a ZIP of the files and a CSV report of which checks each photo passed, all on your own computer; for HR teams, schools and organisations, with the limits of the batch
- [Passport photo white background](https://openphotoid.com/passport-photo-white-background.html): which documents ask for white, which refuse a replaced background (US passport and DV Lottery, India Passport Seva, South Korea, Canada), and which use another colour
- [Passport Photo Online alternative](https://openphotoid.com/passport-photo-online-alternative.html): how OpenPhotoId compares with Passport Photo Online and PhotoAiD (price, upload, expert review, guarantee, documents), checked against their sites on 21 October 2026, and when theirs is the better choice
- [Blog](https://openphotoid.com/blog/)
- [Passport photo rejected? Common reasons and how to check yours](https://openphotoid.com/blog/passport-photo-rejected.html): 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
- [What a passport photo check can measure, and what it cannot](https://openphotoid.com/blog/passport-photo-check.html): the twelve checks, with a US passport example
- Source: https://gitlab.com/open-photoid/openphotoid
- Contact: hello@openphotoid.com