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
Onboarding customers who use a passport as primary identity proof
Capturing traveller details for travel and forex services
Reading foreign passports during NRI onboarding
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