Scan a government issued passport document via the PixLab /docscan API endpoint by uploading a local passport image using the POST method. Extract the user face and parse all MRZ fields - https://pixlab.io/cmd?id=docscan
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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.post('https://api.pixlab.io/docscan', | |
files = {'file': open('./local_passport_image.png', 'rb')}, | |
data={ | |
'type':'passport', # Type of document we are a going to scan, | |
'key':'PIXLAB_API_KEY' # 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']) |
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Scan a government issued passport document via the PixLab /docscan API endpoint by uploading a local passport image using the POST method. Extract the user face and parse all MRZ fields - https://pixlab.io/cmd?id=docscan