Extracting text from ID cards

An identity card (commonly abbreviated as ID) is a small plastic or paper card that is used to verify a person’s identity. This can be an identity card, work permit, residence permit, passport card or other identity document. Manually re-typing text from ID cards, especially in batch mode, is time consuming and commonly leads to errors.

Aspose.OCR offers a special recognition algorithm that extracts text from scanned or photographed ID cards, which can then be automatically saved to the database or automatically verified.

To extract text from an ID card, use RecognizeIDCard method of AsposeOCR class.

This method allows you to customize recognition accuracy, performance, and other settings.

The method takes OcrInput object and returns a list of recognition results containing the identity data.

AsposeOCR api = new AsposeOCR();
// Add images to the recognition batch
OcrInput input  = new OcrInput(InputType.SingleImage);
input.add(os.path.join(self.dataDir, "ID1.png"));
input.add(os.path.join(self.dataDir, "ID2.png"));
// Recognition settings
IDCardRecognitionSettings recognitionSettings = new IDCardRecognitionSettings();
recognitionSettings.setAllowedCharacters(CharactersAllowedType.LATIN_ALPHABET);
// Recognize ID cards
ArrayList<RecognitionResult> results = api.RecognizeIDCard(input, recognitionSettings);
results.forEach((result) -> {
	System.out.println(result.recognition_text);
});