Flipkart labels, sorted the way you pack them

Two different downloads, two different jobs

Flipkart's label-only download is already cut to size — a real one measures 225 by 370 points, about 4 by 6 inches. There is nothing to crop, and the tool says so by leaving those pages exactly as they are. Copying them untouched keeps their own boxes and annotations rather than rebuilding each page for no reason.

The download that carries a tax invoice below the label is a different shape, and that one crops like a Meesho sheet.

What it reads off each label

• The SKU, from the product row —1 Acme_Black_STD_150 | Acme 2 Ply Premium
• The courier, from the top of the label
• The quantity, so an order wanting two pieces is not packed as one

On a real 344-label batch that is 80 SKUs with nothing unreadable; on a 500-label batch, 103 SKUs, also with nothing unreadable.

The awkward details that took real files to find

A real Shadowfax label readsSShadowfax E2E SDD COD — a doubled S, because the courier's logo overlaps its own name in the PDF. Any pattern anchored to a word boundary misses every Shadowfax label in the file, silently, and files them all under "unknown courier".

A Flipkart page also sits at an offset: a real label's page box starts 185 points across and 450 points up, rather than at zero. Software that assumes a page begins at the origin puts the crop somewhere off the page entirely.

Neither of these is guessable. Both are why this was built against real downloads rather than samples.

One file per courier

Tick One file per courier and you get a separate PDF for each, named so you can tell them apart without opening them —batch - 338 E-Kart.pdf. Each file is still sorted by product inside, which is the point: you hand one stack to one pickup and it is still in packing order.

More on courier splitting →

Common questions

My Flipkart labels are already label sized. Is cropping useless?

For the label-only download, yes — and the tool leaves those pages completely untouched rather than re-cropping a label that is already a label. Re-cropping can only lose ink. The value for those files is the sorting, not the cropping.

What about the download with the invoice underneath?

That one is cropped like a Meesho sheet: the invoice is found and the page cut above it. You can also choose to keep the invoice and only remove the blank space.

Why does my courier show as Shadowfax on some labels?

Because it is. A Flipkart batch can carry more than one courier, and the tool can write a separate PDF for each — still grouped by product inside each file.

Does it handle a 500-label batch?

Yes. A real 500-label file reads in about 25 seconds on a four-core laptop, using several cores at once, with a progress bar throughout.