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Passport copy: the data page at true size

The page with your photo and details measures 125 × 88 mm (4.921 × 3.465 in).1 Photograph it and the tool places it, straight, on Letter or A4 at exactly that size, as a PDF or JPG.

Copy the data page

A specimen passport open at its data page, 125 by 88 mm, with two machine-readable lines at the bottomP<XXXSPECIMEN<<SAMPLE<<<<<<<<<X0000000<0XXX0001019X3012310<<<SPECIMEN125 mm88 mm
A specimen data page: the portrait, the fields, and the two machine-readable lines.
Data page
125 × 88 mm
Inches
4.921 × 3.465
At 300 dpi
1476 × 1039 px
Copy
One page, one side

The tool · free · on this device

Copy your passport's data page

Open the passport flat at the photo page and photograph it from above.

Paper
US Letter
Saves as
passport-data-page.pdf

No account · No watermark · Letter or A4 · PDF or JPG

Document Passport data page · 125 × 88 mm (ID-3) Change

What's on the page

Two zones. The copy needs both.

ICAO divides the data page into a visual inspection zone and a machine readable zone (MRZ): two coded lines whose size and position are fixed so readers can scan them.1

Visual zonePortrait and details

Keep it free of glare.

MRZThe two coded lines

What a machine reads. Keep both lines whole and sharp.

For a visa, an airline or an office, black out nothing unless they allow it.

Taking the photo

Flat, from above, no glare.

  1. Open it flat

    On a dark table. Hold the other half down at its far edge, fingers off the data page.

  2. Shoot from above

    The laminate reflects. Tilt a little until no bright patch crosses the text.

  3. Check the spine corner

    The page meets the other half there. Drag that corner if it's off.

Size on paper

125 × 88 mm, centered.

On A4, 42.50 mm from the left and 104.50 mm from the top; Letter the same way. The PDF draws it at 354.33 × 249.45 pt, and the copy is 1476 × 1039 px at 300 dpi.

PDFpassport-data-page.pdf

For printing and uploads. A form with a limit? Keep the file under 100, 200 or 500 KB. How the limit works.

JPGpassport-data-page.jpg

The whole page as one image at 300 dpi.

Other pagesOne page per copy

Another size? Choose Custom size.

US passport applications

Applying for a US passport? The copy is of your ID.

Form DS-11 needs a photocopy of the front and back of each ID you present, on white 8.5 × 11 in paper, one side.2 A valid or expired, undamaged US passport book or card is one of the primary IDs.2

The ID photocopy for a passport application, rule by rule

Sending a copy

A hotel or an agency asked for one?

Turn on Mark it for one use and type who it's for. The line repeats across the page.

Two specimen cards: one with a line saying who the copy is for, repeated across it; one with most of a number covered by a black boxSPECIMEN · NOT A REAL IDCOPY FOR HOTEL CHECK-IN · OCT 2026COPY FOR HOTEL CHECK-IN · OCT 2026COPY FOR HOTEL CHECK-IN · OCT 2026SPECIMEN · NOT A REAL ID1234Marked for one useNumber blacked out
The one-use line says who the copy is for and when, drawn into the pixels.

Sources

  1. ICAO Doc 9303, Machine Readable Travel Documents, Part 4: Specifications for Machine Readable Passports (MRPs) (8th edition, 2021). Read 7 October 2026.
  2. U.S. Department of State Photo ID Requirements (passports). Read 7 October 2026. Read through the Internet Archive's copy (copy of 7 July 2026; the live page asks visitors to prove they are human).

Official pages only: the standards, the agencies and the printer makers themselves. Where a page didn't say something, neither do we.