NEET Photo and Signature Resizer, Compressor and Converter

What NEET is

NEET is the national entrance examination for undergraduate medical admission in India, including MBBS and BDS, and it is the only route into those programmes through a single national test. The National Testing Agency publishes a detailed Annexure of specifications for the candidate's photograph, signature and left hand thumb impression as part of the application notice.

NEET asks for more images than almost any other examination on this site, and the extra ones are easy to overlook. Alongside the online passport photograph and the signature, the form expects a postcard size photograph of 4 by 6 inches, a left hand thumb impression, and an image of the Class 10 certificate. The agency also states the rules strictly: no cap, goggles or mask, no polaroid or computer generated photograph, and where someone else's photograph has been uploaded the candidature is cancelled and treated as use of unfair means, with criminal action possible. Candidates are also advised to keep spare passport and postcard prints on hand, which is the practical reason to prepare these files before the form opens.

Start from neet.nta.nic.in for the NEET notification. Where a third-party page lists a different size from the one in the table above, the notification wins, and a corrigendum published later can supersede both.

This page sets out the numbers NEET actually asks for. It is not a general guide to cropping or to the tool interface, because those instructions do not change from one exam to the next and they are written up separately.

What the NEET form asks you to upload

4 images go into this form. That is the detail most candidates miss, because the photograph and signature are the obvious ones and the remaining uploads are easy to overlook until the portal rejects the submission. They are:

• A photograph at 3.5 x 4.5 cm, no heavier than 300 KB and no lighter than 30 KB.
• A signature at 3.5 x 1.5 cm, no heavier than 100 KB and no lighter than 10 KB.
• A certificate scan at 800 x 1200 px, up to 500 KB.
• A fingerprint impression at 2.5 x 3 cm, up to 500 KB.

The NEET numbers, and why they matter

NEET publishes its sizes in both units, which means the record is offering two ways to express the same kind of requirement. Pick the row that matches how your own advertisement is worded: centimetres when the notification states a physical frame, pixels when it states a resolution. They are alternatives published for different notifications, not a sequence to apply in turn.

Note the mix of units in the NEET table. Alongside the pixel and centimetre entries there is a 4 x 6 inch postcard size photograph, which is a physical print measurement. It is a separate image from the online photograph, not a second rendering of the same one.

Resolution appears more than once in the NEET record, at 200 and 96 DPI. That is not a contradiction: the physical frame is the same in both, and the choice is how densely the image is stored. Where an advertisement is silent, the 200 DPI row is the safer one, because a denser image still measures correctly at a lower resolution while the reverse is not true.

Worth knowing that NEET works in both directions. The photograph must be no larger than 300 KB and no smaller than 30 KB, and the signature no larger than 100 KB with 10 KB as its floor. Overshooting the ceiling is the usual mistake; undershooting the floor is the one that surprises people who compress hard.

There are 2 further uploads on this form: document at 800 x 1200 px, up to 500 KB; document at 2.5 x 3 cm, up to 500 KB. These sit alongside the photograph and signature rather than replacing them, and each carries its own ceiling, so a file prepared for the portrait is the wrong starting point for them.

If the NEET application refuses your file

• If NEET refuses a file, start with the weight on the result card against the 300 KB, then look at the picture. At this ceiling, an uncropped phone photo straight off the camera will not fit, so crop before you compress rather than after.
• The signature is judged on its own 3.5 x 1.5 cm box and is not rescued by a correct photograph. If it is rejected, the usual cause is loose cropping: a signature scanned with a wide white margin carries more weight than the 100 KB allowance and fails even though the writing itself looks right.
• A third attempt with the same settings will produce the same result. Read the current notification again, because the specification is corrected by corrigendum from time to time and the values in this tool follow the specification as recorded.

Official links from the original page

• examinationservices.nic.in/neetc2026/root/Home.aspx?enc=Ei4cajBkK1gZSfgr53ImFcFR+natXIEjJ1rCf6DMgOr0FO08ClwO9m4YYQvMGcVT
• cdnbbsr.s3waas.gov.in/s37bc1ec1d9c3426357e69acd5bf320061/uploads/2026/02/20260208939209382.pdf
• exams.nta.ac.in/NEET/

Images from the original page

Frequently Asked Questions

The mechanics of the crop step, the face mask overlay, and the compression trade-off are identical across all of these tools, so they have their own guide instead of a section on every page. Read the complete photo and signature guide.