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Why forms reject your photo
Nepali online portals — Loksewa applications, passport and visa forms, scholarship portals, bank KYC — almost always cap the file you may attach, usually at 200KB or 500KB. A photo straight from a modern phone is 3MB to 8MB, so the upload fails or the page silently does nothing. The fix is not a different photo; it is the same photo at a smaller file size.
Two things make a file smaller: fewer pixels, and more compression. Reducing pixels is the safer of the two. A document photographed at 4000 pixels wide loses nothing readable at 2000 pixels, and halving the dimensions cuts the file to roughly a quarter before any quality is sacrificed. That is why the default here keeps the largest side at 2000 pixels and only then compresses as far as it must.
iPhone photos and HEIC
If you use an iPhone, your photos are probably saved as HEIC rather than JPG. HEIC is a better format, but most Nepali government and bank systems do not accept it, and some simply fail without saying why. This tool reads HEIC and hands back a JPG. If that is all you need, use the HEIC to JPG converter instead — it does the conversion without changing the size.
Frequently asked
- How do I compress a photo to exactly 200KB?
- Choose your photo, pick the 200 KB target, and the tool finds the highest image quality that still fits under 200KB. You do not have to guess a quality percentage or try again — it searches for you in one pass.
- Are my photos uploaded anywhere?
- No. The compression runs inside your own browser using your device's processor. The photo is never sent to Lami or to any other server, which also means the tool works on a slow or metered connection.
- Can it handle iPhone HEIC photos?
- Yes. iPhones save photos as HEIC, which most Nepali government and bank forms reject. This tool decodes HEIC and gives you back a standard JPG that forms accept.
- Will compressing make my document unreadable?
- Not at the sizes forms ask for, if you keep the largest side at 2000 pixels. Text on a citizenship card or passport stays legible. If the tool says it could not reach your target, reduce the largest side rather than dropping quality further — scaling keeps text sharper than heavy compression does.
- What size should a photo be for an online form in Nepal?
- Most Nepali portals accept up to 200KB or 500KB and state the limit next to the upload button. When no limit is given, 200KB at 2000 pixels is a safe choice that uploads quickly and stays readable.
Other free tools
Need a PDF instead of separate photos? Our image to PDF converter turns several photos into one document, one page each, without re-compressing them. You can also convert iPhone HEIC photos to JPG, convert Nepali units and Bikram Sambat dates, check today's exchange rates, or read today's rashifal. Everything on our tools page is free and needs no account.