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Converting Scanned PAN/Aadhaar Copies to Clean PDFs

Oct 29, 2024By PDF Pro Team

Financial setups—like opening a Zerodha Demat account, applying for a Bajaj EMI card, or clearing a home loan—demand immediate KYC (Know Your Customer) uploads. Invariably, users take a dimly lit photo of their PAN card on their dining table and try to upload the 5MB iPhone HEIC file, which is instantly rejected by the portal.

The Golden Standard of KYC Uploads

Bots, not humans, review 90% of KYC documents initially. The OCR engines running behind banking portals require bright, flat, properly cropped images nested inside an A4 PDF wrapper. A skewed JPEG messes with their bounding box algorithms, leading to a frustrating "Verification Failed" email.

Converting JPG to PDF Correctly

Prior to conversion, use your phone's native editor to ramp up the contrast, pulling the text out from the dark background. Crop out the table. Then, feed that clean JPEG into a JPG-to-PDF converter. This converts the image payload into proper document metadata, which banking APIs vastly prefer.


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