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How to scan a handwritten IGNOU assignment under 10 MB
Regional centre portals reject fat phone dumps. The file has to be readable, one course, cover first — not a 40 megabyte album.
By MyIGNOU Assignment editorial deskUpdated 2 min read
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Why 10 MB keeps showing up
Regional Centre Delhi-1’s published online guidelines for a recent June session asked for one PDF per course, under 10 MB. Other centres copy that number. It is a portal limit, not a mark of quality. A 9 MB file of dark, readable pages beats a 25 MB file of glare.
Photograph like a copier, not a holiday
- Rear camera, page filling the frame, even indoor light
- Turn off portrait mode and beauty filters — they smear ink
- Shoot from above. A 30-degree angle warps line spacing
- Export JPEG if the phone defaults to HEIC. Many browsers cannot decode HEIC
The handwritten scanner resizes each photo onto A4 and JPEG-compresses it in the browser. Nothing is uploaded. Reorder pages if a question landed out of sequence.
Order before you hit upload
- Cover page — generated or handwritten, enrolment matching the ID card
- ID card copy, if that cycle’s notice asks for it in the same file
- Question paper, if the centre wants it attached
- Answers in the same order as the questions
If the cover was printed separately, merge it in front of the scan. Do not upload five PDFs for five questions unless the notice explicitly wants that — most do not.
If it is still over the cap
Stand further back so the page is the whole frame, then crop. A table photographed from across the room wastes pixels on wood grain. Drop a duplicate photo of the same sheet. Recolour filters that turn the paper yellow also inflate the file.