OCR Passport API
Extract passport number, name, date of birth, nationality and expiry from a passport image, including the machine-readable zone.
Overview
What the OCR Passport API does
OCR Passport reads a passport data page and returns personal information, document metadata and address details in structured form.
Passports follow an international standard, including the machine-readable zone at the foot of the page. That consistency makes extraction highly reliable and gives an internal cross-check between the printed fields and the encoded ones.
Built for
Use cases
Where teams use the OCR Passport API
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Onboarding customers who use a passport as primary identity proof
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Capturing traveller details for travel and forex services
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Reading foreign passports during NRI onboarding
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Screening for expired documents at point of capture
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
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- One API key for every check
- Verified against official Indian records
- Built for onboarding at scale