Extracting text from passport images

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 for Python via .NET 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 recognize_passport() method of AsposeOcr class.

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

The method takes OcrInput object and returns a RecognitionResult object containing the passport data.

# Instantiate Aspose.OCR API
api = AsposeOcr()
# Add image to the recognition batch
input = OcrInput(InputType.SINGLE_IMAGE)
input.add("passport1.png")
input.add("passport2.png")
# Set recognition language
recognitionSettings = PassportRecognitionSettings()
recognitionSettings.language = Language.Latin
# Recognize passports
results = api.recognize_passport(input, recognitionSettings)
# Print recognition result
for result in results:
    print(result.recognition_text)