Aadhaar & ID Card Print

How to print your Aadhaar card front and back on A4

1. Choose your e-Aadhaar PDF (downloaded from UIDAI), an e-PAN, a voter ID (e-EPIC) PDF or another card's PDF. Or choose photos of the card, the front and the back.
2. A locked PDF asks for its password (below): type it, and it opens on your phone.
3. The card's front and back are found by themselves and shown. If a box is off, tap Adjust box (for a photo, Corners) and drag it onto the card.
4. Choose the size (the standard card size, or the card's size in your PDF), the paper, side by side or one above the other, how many copies, and the lines to cut along.
5. Tap Make the A4 to print, then Print, Download or Share.
6. Print at Actual size / 100%, not Fit to page, and measure the 50 mm line on the sheet with a ruler. Cut along the outline.

Everything happens in your browser: the card, the PDF and its password are never uploaded to ap7am or anywhere else, and nothing is saved.

మీ ఆధార్ కార్డు ఫైల్ మీ ఫోన్‌లోనే ఉంటుంది: ఎక్కడికీ అప్‌లోడ్ కాదు.

The password of an e-Aadhaar or e-PAN

• e-Aadhaar, as UIDAI states: the first four letters of your name as on Aadhaar, in CAPITAL letters, then your year of birth. SURESH KUMAR born in 1990: SURE1990. Spaces are skipped (SAI KUMAR: SAIK1990), a dot counts (P. KUMAR: P.KU1990), and a shorter name is used whole (RIA: RIA1990).
• e-PAN: usually your date of birth as DDMMYYYY, such as 15081990.
• Other cards: the email or SMS that brought the file says how its password is made.

The password is tried once, as you type it, only to open the file on your device. The page never guesses passwords and keeps none.

How the card is found

An e-Aadhaar has its card at the foot of the page, the front and back side by side below a cut line; an e-PAN holds its card as pictures; a voter ID, DigiLocker card or driving licence draws its card as boxes; a scan holds it in its pixels. The page reads the PDF's drawing, its pictures and its text (and, for a scan, its ink) for card-shaped boxes, and takes the best pair of the same size side by side or one above the other: the left or upper one is the front. A card on a page turned sideways is set upright by the way its text runs.

In a photo, the card is told from the table or cloth behind it by its colour, its edges are fitted as straight lines (past the rounded corners), and it is flattened to a straight card and cleaned: white made white, text made dark. On 16 made-up test photos (straight, tilted, at an angle, sideways; on wood, cloth, a grey table and a blue sheet) the corners were found within 0.6% of the card's width.

The sheet

• Standard card size: 85.6 × 54 mm with 3.18 mm rounded corners (ISO/IEC 7810 ID-1), the size of a bank card and of UIDAI's PVC Aadhaar, which fits a card holder. Or as in the PDF, the size the card has on the page.
• Side by side or one above the other; or joined, to fold : the front and back touch along a fold line, so the strip you cut out folds into one card with a back, to laminate.
• Up to 4 pairs on one A4 (8 cards with only a front), inside a 10 mm margin that home printers can print.
• The card's outline to cut along, and crop marks at its corners if you like.
• A 50 mm line with its words: if it measures less than 5 cm, the print was shrunk; print again with Fit to page off.

Only the card, sharp

The sheet holds only the card faces, the lines to cut along and the measuring words. Nothing else from your PDF is in the file: not the rest of the page (an e-Aadhaar's letter part, with its number, address and photo), not its text, not a hidden copy of the page. You can share the sheet with a print shop knowing it carries no more than what you see on it.

From a PDF, each face is drawn at 600 DPI, a picture of exactly the box you see: about 2,000 dots across the card, sharper than home and shop printers print it. A QR code on the card is set back to pure black and white after it is drawn, so it stays crisp: on our test card, a dense code with squares 0.22 mm wide still scanned from a 300 DPI print of the sheet. A locked PDF is opened in your browser with your password. From a photo, the card keeps the photo's own resolution (never enlarged).

Masked Aadhaar

Tick Hide the first 8 digits to print the number as XXXX XXXX 1234 on the front and back, as UIDAI's masked Aadhaar shows it. From an e-Aadhaar PDF the number is found in its text (its check digit must be right) and covered by itself; on a photo or scan you drag the white box over it. The digits are painted over in the face's picture, so they are not anywhere in the file. A masked copy is for sharing where the full number is not needed; it is not a new official document. UIDAI's own masked Aadhaar is downloaded from myaadhaar.uidai.gov.in .

Is a printout valid?

As UIDAI says, an e-Aadhaar, on screen or printed, is as valid as the physical Aadhaar. For a plastic card, order an Aadhaar PVC card from UIDAI at uidai.gov.in ; it comes by post. For PAN, voter ID and other cards, ask whoever wants the copy whether a printout of the e-card will do. This page prints what is in your file; it does not make or change any document.

Limits

• Printers differ: some shrink a little even at 100%. The 50 mm line shows it. Thick or glossy paper (130 gsm or photo paper) and lamination make the card firmer.
• The card goes in as a picture, so its words cannot be selected or copied from the sheet; they still print sharp.
• A photo with glare on a laminated card, or a card on a background of its own colour, may need its corners placed by hand. Shoot it flat, in daylight, on something darker than the card, without flash.
• The number for masking is read from a PDF's text; a scan or photo has none, so you place the box. If the PDF's author has not allowed printing, it is not printed here.

Questions

Need a passport size photo too? Passport size photos. To black out an Aadhaar number in any PDF, use Redact PDF; to keep an unlocked copy of a locked PDF, Unlock PDF.

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