What fits in 200 KB
200 KB is a comfortable size: a 1,000 × 1,300 px photo at good quality, or a legible A4 document page in greyscale at about 1,240 px wide. It is a common limit for online applications, ID verification uploads, rental and employment forms, and profile photos on many sites.
Common cases
- ID uploads. A photo of a driver's licence or passport page: crop to the card, keep it straight, and 200 KB leaves every detail legible.
- Profile photos. 800 × 800 at high quality is typically well under 200 KB.
- Visa and OCI portals. Some limit photos to around 200 KB with exact dimensions; use the photo maker for those, which has the presets.
- Receipts and proof of payment. Photograph flat in good light, crop, and they compress easily.
Getting the best result
Start from the original photo, not a screenshot of it. Crop away what the reader does not need. If the limit is per file and you have several pages, compress each separately; if the portal accepts PDF and you have many pages, a PDF may be easier.
WebP and AVIF
If the site accepts them, WebP and AVIF give noticeably better quality at 200 KB than JPEG. Most government portals accept only JPEG and PNG, so JPEG is the default.
Signatures and small graphics
Black-on-white signatures and simple logos are far below 200 KB at full quality. If a form wants them separately, crop tightly and keep the background clean.
Step by step
- Add the photo or scan, ideally the original from your camera or scanner rather than a copy sent through a messaging app.
- If the form gives pixel dimensions, type them as the maximum width and height above the button.
- Leave the format on JPG unless the form accepts WebP; JPG is what online application and ID-check portals almost always want.
- Click Compress to 200 KB. The result shows the final size, dimensions and quality.
- Open the downloaded file and check it at 100% before uploading: faces clear, text legible.
What to expect at 200 KB
As a rough guide, 200 KB is enough for a clear photo or a greyscale A4 page at about 1,000 × 1,300 px. The exact numbers depend on the content: plain backgrounds and soft light compress far better than busy, high-contrast scenes. Because the tool measures every attempt, you get the highest quality that genuinely fits rather than a guess that might be over the limit or needlessly blurry.
Troubleshooting
- The form says the file is still too big. Some forms count 1 KB as 1,000 bytes, not 1,024. Lower the target by about 3% and run it again.
- The form says the image is too small. It has a minimum pixel size or minimum file size as well. Set the maximum width and height to its stated dimensions, and use a higher quality.
- The photo looks blocky. Crop away background so the same bytes are spent on the subject, or start from a sharper original.
- The upload is refused as the wrong type. Check the file ends in .jpg; some forms reject .jpeg or WebP. Rename it if needed; the content is the same.
Private by design
The image never leaves your device. It is decoded in your browser, processed in a background worker by open-source codecs compiled to WebAssembly (MozJPEG, libwebp, libavif and OxiPNG, via the jsquash project, plus pica for resizing) and handed back as a download. There is no upload, no account and no server copy to delete. You can confirm it in your browser's developer tools: the Network tab shows the page's own files and the codec files loading, and nothing carrying your image. After the first visit the tools work offline.