Scan a government issued passport document via the PixLab /docscan API endpoint. Extract the user face and parse all MRZ fields - https://pixlab.io/cmd?id=docscan

passport_id_scan_ocr.py

import requests
import json

# Given a Passport document, extract the passport holder face and convert/parse all Machine Readable Zone
# to textual content ready to be consumed by your application.
#
# PixLab recommend that you connect your AWS S3 bucket via the dashboard at https://pixlab.io/dashboard
# so that any extracted face or MRZ crop is automatically stored on your S3 bucket rather than the PixLab one.
# This feature should give you full control over your analyzed media files.
#
# https://pixlab.io/cmd?id=docscan for additional information.

req = requests.get('https://api.pixlab.io/docscan',params={
	'img':'https://i.stack.imgur.com/oJY2K.png', # Passport input image
	'type':'passport', # Type of document we are a going to scan
	'key':'PIXLAB_API_KEY' # Your PixLab API Key - Get yours from https://pixlab.io/dashboard
})
reply = req.json()
if reply['status'] != 200:
	print (reply['error'])
else:
	print ("User Cropped Face: " + reply['face_url'])
	print ("MRZ Cropped Image: " + reply['mrz_img_url'])
	print ("Raw MRZ Text: " + reply['mrz_raw_text'])
	print ("MRZ Fields: ")
	# Display all parsed MRZ fields
	print ("\tIssuing Country: " + reply['fields']['issuingCountry'])
	print ("\tFull Name: "       + reply['fields']['fullName'])
	print ("\tDocument Number: " + reply['fields']['documentNumber'])
	print ("\tCheck Digit: "   + reply['fields']['checkDigit'])
	print ("\tNationality: "   + reply['fields']['nationality'])
	print ("\tDate Of Birth: " + reply['fields']['dateOfBirth'])
	print ("\tSex: "           + reply['fields']['sex'])
	print ("\tDate Of Expiry: "    + reply['fields']['dateOfExpiry'])
	print ("\tPersonal Number: "   + reply['fields']['personalNumber'])
	print ("\tFinal Check Digit: " + reply['fields']['finalcheckDigit'])

Passport Scan Rest API using PixLab /docscan endpoint.

Given a government issued passport document, extract the user face and parse all MRZ fields.

PixLab recommend that you connect your AWS S3 bucket via your dashboard at https://pixlab.io/dashboard
so that any cropped face or MRZ crop is stored automatically on your S3 bucket rather than the PixLab one.
This feature should give you full control over your analyzed media files.

https://pixlab.io/cmd?id=docscan for additional information.