The problem
Government documents in India arrive as PDFs built for A4 paper. The card itself sits somewhere on that page, often surrounded by a letter, sometimes as a pair of cut-out panels at the bottom. To print it onto a blank PVC card you need just the card, at exactly the right size, sharp enough that the small print and the QR code still work.
Doing that by hand in an image editor is fiddly, and it is easy to end up with something slightly the wrong size or noticeably blurry.
What this does
You pick your document type and choose the PDF. The tool finds the card on the page, crops it to 85.6 × 54 mm — the ISO/IEC 7810 ID-1 size every blank PVC card uses — and gives you both sides to download. If the crop is not quite right, you can adjust it yourself in a zoomable editor.
The card is rendered straight from the vector content of the PDF at full print resolution, not scaled up from a screenshot, so text and QR codes stay crisp.
Why it runs in your browser
Identity documents are sensitive, and the safest place for yours is your own device. So the whole job happens there. There is no upload, no server-side processing and no storage. That is a deliberate design choice rather than a policy we ask you to trust: the site simply has nowhere to send your file.
It also means the tool is fast, works on a slow connection, and costs nothing to run per visitor.
Honest limits
Some documents have more than one layout in circulation, and some states design their own version of the same card. Where automatic detection cannot be certain, the tool shows you what it found and lets you correct it. When people correct a crop, the corrected position helps improve the tool for the next person — recorded as numbers only, never any part of a document.
A card printed from a PDF is a printed copy, not an officially issued card. Where an official PVC card can be ordered from the issuing authority, our document pages say so and point you there.