Scan Malaysia ID Card (MyKAD) using the PixLab DOCSCAN API - Extract Face, and all ID Fields - https://pixlab.io/cmd?id=docscan

malaysia_mykad_id_scanner_api.php

<?php
/*
 * Usage sample of the ID card scanner from PixLab. In this sample, we shall scan
 * ID Card from Malaysia (MyKAD); therefore we will extract the user's face, date of birth,
 * full name, address, and religion if available.
 */ 
/*
 * PixLab PHP Client which is just a single class PHP file without any dependency that you can get from Github
 * https://github.com/symisc/pixlab-php 
 */
require_once "pixlab.php";
# Given a government issued ID card from Malaysia, UAE, India, US Driver, Singapore, etc., extract the user face and parse all 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.

$idcard_link = 'https://buletinonline.net/v7/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Mykad-penghuni-puan-Noraini-2.jpg'; /* ID card prototype: Of course, replace with a real government issued id. */
$key = 'PIXLAB_API_KEY'; # Your PixLab API key that you can fetch from https://console.pixlab.io/
/* Process */
$pix = new Pixlab($key);
if( !$pix->get('docscan',[
	'img' => $idcard_link, # ID Card Scanned Image
	'type' => 'idcard', # Type of document we are going to scan 
	'country' => 'my' # Malysia country code
	]) ){
	echo $pix->get_error_message()."\n";
	die;
}
/* Output the scan result */
echo "User Cropped Face: " . $pix->json->face_url . "\n";
#echo "Raw Text: " . $pix->json->full_text . "\n";
echo "Fields:\n";
# At this stage, the face should be extracted and the array populated with the appropriate information.
if( isset($pix->json->country) )  echo  "Country: ".$pix->json->fields->country . "\n";
if( isset($pix->json->fields->id) )       echo  "ID: ".$pix->json->fields->id . "\n";
if( isset($pix->json->fields->name) )     echo  "Name: ".$pix->json->fields->name . "\n";
if( isset($pix->json->fields->address) )  echo  "Address: ".$pix->json->fields->address . "\n";
if( isset($pix->json->fields->religion) ) echo  "Religion: ".$pix->json->fields->religion . "\n";
if( isset($pix->json->fields->sex) )      echo  "Sex: ".$pix->json->fields->sex . "\n";
if( isset($pix->json->fields->race) )     echo  "Race: ".$pix->json->fields->race . "\n";
if( isset($pix->json->fields->birth) )    echo  "Date of birth: ".$pix->json->fields->birth . "\n";
if( isset($pix->json->fields->birth_country) ) echo  "Country of birth: ".$pix->json->fields->birth_country . "\n";
if( isset($pix->json->fields->nationality) )   echo  "Nationality: ".$pix->json->nationality . "\n";
?>

Usage sample of the ID card scanner from PixLab. In this sample, we shall scan ID Card from Malaysia (MyKAD); therefore we will extract the user's face, date of birth, full name, address, and religion if available.

PixLab recommend that you connect your AWS S3 bucket via the dashboard at https://console.pixlab.io/ so that any extracted face 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.