Make your application files fit.
Exam and job portals reject files for simple technical reasons — a photo 2 KB too big, a signature in the wrong format, a PDF over the limit. FormReady prepares your photo, signature or document to the exact rules, then measures the finished file and shows you the result before you download. No guessing, no fake promises.
The dashed red outline shows the suggested trim, worked out from your untrimmed picture — nothing is cut until you apply it or press Prepare, and “Use full image” undoes it at any time. Check the outline includes every stroke.
Your file is prepared
These rules cannot all be met with this file
Nothing was faked: the closest attempt is described above, not passed off as a success. You can still download the best attempt if it is useful to you.
Pages are never removed silently — extraction uses exactly the pages you tick.
“Compress scans” rebuilds each page as a measured JPEG image — right for scanned documents. This converts pages into images — selectable text, search and accessibility features will be lost. Plain re-saving keeps text and vectors exactly as they are.
Preview shows the first pages — download and check the full PDF before uploading. Small previews of up to the first 24 compressed pages:
Your PDF is prepared
This PDF could not be prepared
How it works
Four steps, all on your own device. The most important one is the third: FormReady does not guess — it prepares the file, then measures the actual result.
Choose the rules
Pick a verified portal preset — FPSC, IBPS, UPSC, SSC, CTET, Teletalk and more — or type your own custom size and dimension rules.
Add your file
Choose a photo, signature or PDF, or take a photo with your camera. The file is read by its real contents and never uploaded anywhere.
Prepare & measure
Crop and straighten, then let the tool encode and measure the finished file. The checklist shows PASS, FAIL or REVIEW for every rule — measured, not estimated.
Download & apply
Download the prepared file and upload it to your application. A technical PASS means the file matches the stated rules — the portal still makes the final decision.
Portal presets, checked against official sources
Every preset below was transcribed from the portal's own official notice, guidelines or help page — not from blogs — and checked on 2026-11-08. Portals change their rules between cycles, so always compare with your current notice. Where an official source publishes no number, there is no preset: use Custom rules instead.
Technical requirements, explained plainly
KB is about the file. Pixels are about the picture.
File size (KB) is how much space the saved file takes — portals limit it so their servers are not overloaded. Dimensions (pixels) are the width and height of the picture itself. A photo can have perfect dimensions and still be too many KB, or be tiny in KB and far too small in pixels. Both rules must be checked separately — that is why FormReady measures both.
What about DPI?
DPI (dots per inch) describes printed size — it is not something an upload form can weigh. On screen, a 200 × 230 pixel photo is the same file whether it is labelled 72 DPI or 200 DPI. When a notice says “200 × 230 pixels at 200 DPI”, the pixel numbers and the file size in KB are the primary checks. FormReady works in pixels and bytes, and it does not set or guarantee DPI metadata in the finished file — if a portal’s own checker reads DPI metadata specifically, test your downloaded file in the form well before the deadline.
Why do some portals set a minimum size?
A minimum (for example, “signature must be at least 10 KB”) exists because files below it are usually too small or too compressed to read. A 4 KB signature is often a blurry smudge. If your file is under the minimum, making it bigger honestly means re-encoding it at higher quality — which is what FormReady tries first. Enlarging the pixel dimensions of a tiny photo does not add real detail; it only makes a soft picture bigger, and FormReady warns you when that happens.
“Strictly less than” is not the same as “up to”
FPSC requires a photo of less than 30 KB — a file of exactly 30,000 bytes fails. Other portals say “up to 50 KB”, where exactly 50 KB passes. FormReady treats these differently: for strict limits it aims safely below the line, never exactly on it.
Three practical examples
All three are illustrative examples — results vary by document.
The phone photo that is 40× too big
A passport photo taken on a phone is often 1–3 MB. The FPSC preset needs JPG under 30 KB. FormReady crops to the face, resizes, and searches for a suitable quality setting that still lands under the limit — then measures the result.
≈ 1,800 KB → under 30 KB
The signature that is too small
An IBPS signature must be between 10 and 20 KB at about 140 × 60 pixels. A quick phone crop often comes out at 6 KB — below the minimum, and rejected. FormReady trims the white space, sets the exact dimensions and re-encodes at higher quality to land inside the range.
6 KB → inside 10–20 KB
The scanned certificate PDF
A scanner produces a 4 MB PDF of certificates, but the portal allows 500 KB. The scanned-page compressor rebuilds each page as a measured image and shows you page 1 before and after, so you can confirm the text is still readable before you download.
≈ 4,000 KB → under 500 KB
Common mistakes that get files rejected
1. Renaming a PNG to “.jpg”
Changing the file name does not change the file. Portals read the real contents, and a renamed PNG is still a PNG. Convert the file properly — FormReady checks the actual bytes.
2. Stretching the photo to fit
Forcing a wide photo into a square box distorts the face. Crop to the right shape instead — FormReady locks the crop to the required proportions and never stretches.
3. Landing exactly on the limit
“Less than 30 KB” rejects a file of exactly 30 KB — and some portals count KB differently (1,000 vs 1,024 bytes). Aim safely below the line, the way FormReady does for strict rules.
4. Forgetting the minimum size
Many applicants only fight the maximum and never notice the minimum. A signature under its minimum KB is rejected just as firmly as one over the maximum.
5. Uploading a photo where a live capture is required
SSC and RRB capture your photo live during the application; photographing a printed photo is explicitly a rejection reason. No prepared file can substitute for that step.
6. Using last cycle's rules
Portals quietly change sizes between exam cycles — an old blog post may describe a retired portal. Check the date on every rule; FormReady shows when each preset was last checked and links its official source.
Frequently asked questions
Your documents stay yours
Application files are among the most personal documents a person has — photographs, signatures, certificates. FormReady was built so that you never have to hand them to a stranger's server to fix a file size.
Everything happens in your browser, on your device. There is no upload button because there is nothing to upload to. Your files are processed in your browser and are not sent to our server. Closing the page ends the current editing session. Files you download remain on your device. We cannot see, store or share your files — the tool is designed so that we never receive them.
We are equally plain about what the tool cannot do. It measures technical rules — format, dimensions and file size — from the actual finished file. It cannot judge whether a portal will like your photograph's background, whether your signature matches your other documents, or whether a live-capture step is still waiting for you in the form. Those checks stay marked REVIEW, for your eyes, on purpose.
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