Passport Cropper 🪪📷

Automatically crop passport-style photos from scanned forms or images using face detection and image orientation correction.. Ensures correct orientation, centers the face, and optionally compresses the image to stay within a specified file size (e.g., under 100KB). Ideal for scanned documents, selfies, or batch passport photo generation.

This tool detects a face in a scanned form (even if rotated), intelligently crops the surrounding area to form a clean passport-size photo, and optionally compresses it to stay under a specified file size.

✨ Features

• 🧠 Face detection using OpenCV
• 📐 Intelligent orientation correction (handles rotated/scanned forms)
• ✂️ Crops a clean passport-style image around the face
• 💾 Automatically resizes/compresses image under a max file size (optional)
• 🛠️ Easy to use as a library or script
• 🐍 Open Source and available on PyPI

📦 Installation

pip install passport-cropper

🧑‍💻 Usage

from passport_cropper import crop_passport_photo

# Crop and save image from scanned form
cropped = crop_passport_photo(
    image_path="admission_form.jpg",
    output_path="passport_photo.jpg",
    max_size_kb=100   # Optional - limit output image size
)
# No face detected if cropped is None.

if cropped:
  print("Image processed successfully!")

You can also run it directly as a script (CLI version coming soon):

python -m passport_cropper path/to/form.jpg

🖼️ Input / Output Example

Input: Scanned or mobile photo of an admission form (rotated, tilted, or normal)

Output: Clean, upright, passport-style photo of the face cropped and optionally compressed.

📁 Project Structure

passport_cropper/
├── passport_cropper/
│   ├── __init__.py
│   └── cropper.py
├── examples/
├── README.md
├── LICENSE
├── setup.py
├── requirements.txt

⚙️ Parameters

🔧 Requirements

• Python 3.7+
• OpenCV

Install via:

pip install -r requirements.txt

🛡️ License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.

🙌 Contributing

Pull requests are welcome! If you find a bug or want a new feature, feel free to open an issue or submit a PR.

🌐 Links

• 📦 PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/passport-cropper
• 💻 GitHub: https://github.com/abhaybraja/passport-cropper

✍️ Author

Developed with ❤️ by Abhay Braja

Let me know if you'd like me to insert your actual name and GitHub username, or generate a minimal working CLI wrapper too.