Get Person Names from Passports by Python!

extract.py

from PIL import Image
import pytesseract
import re

def extract_name_from_id_card(image):
    try:
        image = Image.open(image)
        ocr_text = pytesseract.image_to_string(image).lower().replace(" ", "")
        name_pattern = re.compile(r"p<([^<]+)<<([^<]+)<")
        matches = name_pattern.findall(ocr_text)
        if len(matches) == 1:
            return matches[0][::-1]
        else:
            words = ocr_text.split()
            possible_names = [
                word for word in words if len(word) > 3 and word.isalpha()
            ]
            return possible_names[:2]
    except Exception as e:
        return None