JUGAD - How to Save and Print Important Pages of Passport on Single Sheet

I had posted two posts about the self planned trip to Europe. There was a requirement for me to submit passport in soft copy to meet some need.

It is easy to create soft copy of any document including passport  by scanning it. Passport can be scanned page by page (at least first and last page and visa page if needed). New and modern printer and scanner also permits to save these pages into single PDF documents. The document, however, run into number of pages based on how many pages were scanned.

I felt, if one has to scan multiple pages of a passport  (or two sides of aaadhar card or something similar small size multi side or multi page docment) and upload it or print it, the organisation getting the upload document has to go through that many pages. If one has to print such a document, even if double sided (back to back), pages get wasted.

To get over this problem I did some Goggling and found an answer which worked fine. Here is the trick to scan multiple pages of a small size document and get them to save on a single sheet (which may take up to 4 such pages with minor size adjustment ).

When such a document is scanned, scan each page individually and save each page as an image with suitable name that maintains the sequence of pages. Once the scan is over, open a MS word new  document. Take each picture of the scanned page and paste it in correct sequence into this new document page. Once all pages are pasted one may realisen that the document has become two pages  but two pages are better than multiple pages.

Nothing to worry about since all these pasted pages are images mostly in .jpeg format. Just resize each image in such a way that three or four images fit a page (one under the other or two images in one row, side by side and next two below then). Only one caution. The readability of the page must be maintained while resizing even if we have to be contend  only 3 images per page and not four. Do not resize images so much that nothing can be read from them.

Hope this helps many like me who were hassled by the thought of getting multiple scans or multi page pdf of a such small document. Doing this also helps carry single page document while travelling abroab. A copy (or copies) of your travel documents carried on your person as a safety measures against loss of travel document is highly recommended.