Extracting text from passport images

To use this recognition method, install sparse text recognition model (aspose-ocr-text-in-wild-v1) in your project.

Automatic passport recognition and verification is a very common task in many areas: border control, banking, security, and so on. However, manually re-typing text is an error-prone and time-consuming process, and mistakes can lead to security breaches and other undesirable consequences.

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

To extract text from a passport image, use RecognizePassport 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 passport data.

AsposeOCR api = new AsposeOCR();
// Add images to the recognition batch
OcrInput input  = new OcrInput(InputType.SingleImage);
input.add(os.path.join(self.dataDir, "passport1.png"));
input.add(os.path.join(self.dataDir, "passport2.png"));
// Recognition settings
PassportRecognitionSettings recognitionSettings = new PassportRecognitionSettings();
recognitionSettings.setLanguage(Language.Ukr);
// Recognize passports
ArrayList<RecognitionResult> results = api.RecognizePassport(input, recognitionSettings);
results.forEach((result) -> {
	System.out.println(result.recognition_text);
});