PAN Card Cropper

e-PAN Card Cropper — Cut a Signed e-PAN PDF Into ID Card, 4×6 Photo & A4 Bulk Print

If you run a CSC, a VLE centre, or a local Xerox/photo shop, you have printed dozens of e-PAN cards for customers. The Income Tax Department only ever gives you one full A4-size PDF — and buried inside it, at the bottom of the page, surrounded by cut marks and empty space, are two small ID-card-sized cutouts: the Front and the Back.

Cropping that out by hand in Photoshop or MS Paint, card after card, wastes time a busy centre does not have. This tool finds and crops both automatically, right inside your browser — no software to install, no manual dragging, and no file ever leaves your computer.

What This Tool Does

Upload a signed e-PAN PDF — the one downloaded from the NSDL, UTIITSL or Income Tax e-filing portal — and the tool instantly:

1. Detects and extracts the Front and Back of the card from the full A4 page, and reads the PAN number straight out of the PDF's own text so each result is labelled correctly.
2. Crops both to the exact CR-80 ID card size — 3.375″ × 2.125″ — at print-quality 300 DPI.
3. Generates ready-to-print output in three formats, depending on how your shop prints.

You can also upload multiple PDFs at once — useful when you have collected e-PAN copies from several customers and want to print them together in one batch, rather than repeating the whole process one customer at a time.

Why These Three Formats Matter

PVC Print is for centres with a dedicated PVC card printer — it needs the image at the exact card dimensions, nothing more, and this tool's 1013×638 px output at 300 DPI is exactly that size, ready to feed straight into the printer's own software.

4×6 Photo Paper is the most common option for small shops without a dedicated card printer: most photo printers and online photo-print kiosks accept the standard 4R (4″×6″) size. Instead of printing Front and Back separately, the tool places both on a single sheet — you get one printed photo per customer, ready to cut and laminate with an ordinary paper cutter.

A4 Bulk Sheet solves a different problem: printing for many customers in one go without wasting paper or time. Five customers' Front and Back cards (10 cards total) are laid out on a single A4 page with light dashed cut-lines. Laminate the full sheet, then cut with a paper cutter — much faster than printing and laminating one card at a time when you have a stack of e-PAN PDFs waiting.

Working With Password-Protected e-PAN PDFs

Most e-PAN PDFs downloaded from NSDL, UTIITSL or the Income Tax e-filing portal are protected with an open password — the applicant's own date of birth, written as DDMMYYYY with no slashes (5 August 1990 becomes 05081990). For a company or firm PAN, the password is the date of incorporation in the same form.

You do not need to remove that password with separate software before uploading here. If a PDF you drop in needs one, this tool asks for it right there in the file list — type the date of birth, click Unlock, and that one file continues on its own while the rest of the batch keeps processing undisturbed.

How to Use It — Step by Step

1. Drop your signed e-PAN PDF onto the upload box above, or click to browse. Add multiple files at once for bulk work, or use "Add more PDFs" afterward.
2. If a file is password protected, type the date of birth as DDMMYYYY in that file's row and click Unlock — it will pick up processing right away.
3. Wait a few seconds while each PDF is read, the PAN number is pulled out, and the Front and Back are cropped automatically.
4. Switch between the PVC Print, 4×6 Photo Paper, and A4 Bulk Sheet tabs to see the ready output for each format.
5. Click the download button under the format you need. PVC downloads individual 300 DPI PNGs (or all of them together as one ZIP); 4×6 and A4 downloads are ready-to-print PDFs sized to the exact physical dimensions, so they print correctly at 100% scale with no manual resizing.

If a particular PDF's layout looks slightly different and the crop is not lining up, open the Crop position panel and nudge the sliders — it updates every card already in the batch at once, so you only have to adjust it the one time.

Tips for a Batch That Prints Cleanly

• Keep the original filenames meaningful before uploading — if the PAN number cannot be read from a particular PDF's text layer, the filename is what identifies that customer in the list and on the bulk sheets.
• Check one card at full size in the PVC tab before committing to a large A4 batch — confirming the crop looks right on one customer saves reprinting the whole sheet.
• Print at "actual size / 100%", never "fit to page" — the 4×6 and A4 PDFs are already sized to their true physical dimensions.
• Use a matte or standard PVC laminate pouch sized for a CR-80 card — the same pouches used for voter ID, driving licence and Aadhaar PVC cards work here too.
• Process one customer's PDF fully before removing it if you are working through a long queue — the Remove button on any row clears that file if you added it by mistake.

A Note on Privacy

Everything happens locally in your browser using JavaScript — the PDF is read, the password check runs, and the cropping happens on your own device. Nothing is uploaded to any server at any point, and this holds true whether you process one file or fifty in the same batch. This matters a great deal when you are handling customers' PAN cards, which carry personal identity information — their name, date of birth, PAN number and signature.

You can confirm this yourself: disconnect from the internet after the page has loaded, and the tool keeps working exactly the same, because there is nothing left for it to talk to. Close the tab, and nothing of any customer's e-PAN PDF remains anywhere but your own device.