Scan a government issued Passport document using the PixLab API. Extract the user's face and display all MRZ fields.

passport_img_scan.php

<?php
/*
 * 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 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.

/* Passport prototype: Of course, replace with a real government issued passport if you 
 * want to deal with a real world situation.
 */
$passport = 'https://i.stack.imgur.com/oJY2K.png';

# Your PixLab API Key - Get yours from https://pixlab.io/dashboard
$key = 'PIXLAB_API_KEY';

/* Process */
$pix = new Pixlab($key);
if( !$pix->get('docscan',[
	'img' => $passport,  /* Passport scanned image */ 
	'type' => 'passport' /* Type of document we are going to scan */ 
	]) ){
	echo $pix->get_error_message()."\n";
	die;
}
/* Output the scan result */
echo "User Cropped Face: " . $pix->json->face_url . "\n";
echo "MRZ Cropped Image: " . $pix->json->mrz_img_url . "\n";
echo "Raw MRZ Text: " . $pix->json->mrz_raw_text . "\n";
echo "MRZ Fields:\n";
/* Display all parsed MRZ fields */
echo "\tIssuing Country: " . $pix->json->fields->issuingCountry . "\n";
echo "\tFull Name: "       . $pix->json->fields->fullName . "\n";
echo "\tDocument Number: " . $pix->json->fields->documentNumber  . "\n";
echo "\tCheck Digit: "   . $pix->json->fields->checkDigit . "\n";
echo "\tNationality: "   . $pix->json->fields->nationality . "\n";
echo "\tDate Of Birth: " . $pix->json->fields->dateOfBirth . "\n";
echo "\tSex: "           . $pix->json->fields->sex . "\n";
echo "\tDate Of Expiry: "    . $pix->json->fields->dateOfExpiry . "\n";
echo "\tPersonal Number: "   . $pix->json->fields->personalNumber . "\n";
echo "\tFinal Check Digit: " . $pix->json->fields->finalcheckDigit . "\n";
?>

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.