PASSPORT EXTRACTION OCR API
Go beyond OCR and verify Passports using Affinda’s Powerful ID Extraction API. Our unique technology sees documents like a human, offering unprecedented accuracy.
Want To Parse Passport Data?
Step 1: User Uploads Passport Scan
You send the passport to our API.
Step 2: We parse the data quickly
Our powerful AI Engine, VEGA, identifies and extracts the key information with 99%+ accuracy.
Step 3: You get clean, formatted data
And just like that, the passport is verified.
Accurate & Fast Passport Verification
Using our Passport OCR SDK, you can quickly extract passport data and send it for verification.
You can accept all forms of images from your users – PNG, JPG, PDF, JFIF – you name it, our AI can handle it. Affinda’s AI will process the data and send it to you, automatically. This is all based on our ‘better than human’ AI which is more advanced than traditional OCR techniques and has a dramatically lower error rate.

Process These Passport Fields Automatically Using our API
Family name
First name
Middle name
Number
Nationality
Country of issue (code)
Date of birth
Sex
Date of issue
Date of expiry
Place of Birth
Authority
Type of passports
Image
Signature
Finger print (if available)
MRZ Type of document
MRZ Issuing country
MRZ Family name
MRZ Given name
MRZ Passport Number
MRZ Nationality code
MRZ Date of birth
MRZ Sex
MRZ Expiry date of passport
MRZ Personal number
What Makes Our Passport OCR API Special?
- Accurate: World-class accuracy delivered by VEGA, our groundbreaking AI
- Fast: Most passports processed in less than 1 second
- Secure: Use our self-hosted solution to process passports securely
- Flexible: Work with our team to customize the solution to your needs

Vega: Our Intelligent Document Processing Engine
VEGA processes documents combining human-like understanding and computer-grade accuracy combining the latest in the AI advancements
Natural language processing
Computer vision
Deep learning
AI Experts. Specialists in Document Extraction.
Affinda is a team of AI nerds, headquartered in Melbourne, Australia and with a global team spanning the world. We specialize in solving novel document extraction problems and have built custom AI solutions for use cases across Insurance, Banking, Investment, Logistics, Recruitment and Finance.
Get in Touch to Discuss Your Project
We can customize our technology to meet your specific needs. With teams in Europe, North America and Australia, we can help – no matter where you are.
Frequently asked questions:
Our technology is used to extract all the important information from an ID document. Modern ID document parsers like Affinda's leverage multiple AI neural networks and data science techniques to extract structured data. Typical fields being extracted may include the document number, first name, middle name, last name, date of birth, address — plus much more. Our ID document extraction tools can be integrated into a software platform, to provide near real time automation.
Affinda’s ID document OCR extractor is capable of extracting data from Passports, Driver’s Licenses and Birth Certificates. If you require additional ID documents and fields to be extracted, please reach out to our AI experts.
Good intelligent document processing requires a combination of technologies and approaches.
Our solution uses deep transfer learning in combination with recent open source language models, to segment, section, identify, and extract relevant fields.
We use image-based object detection and proprietary algorithms developed over several years to segment and understand the document, to identify correct reading order, and ideal segmentation.The structural information is then embedded in downstream sequence taggers which perform Named Entity Recognition (NER) to extract key fields.Each document section is handled by a separate neural network.Post-processing of fields to clean up location data, phone numbers and more.Comprehensive skills matching using semantic matching and other data science techniques
OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition. Affinda’s software uses OCR to convert an image that doesn’t have text data — such as a photo of an ID document — into a file that is machine-readable.
All uploaded information is stored in a secure location and encrypted. You can read all the details here.
We export the data from our ID documents in JSON format so that it can be most easily integrated into your platform or database.
We’d be happy to build you an ID document parsing tool with custom fields specific to your use case. Just click here to get in touch with our development team!
We’d be happy to build you an ID document parsing tool for another document that we don't currently have listed. Click here to get in touch with our development team and we can discuss your use case.
Our Online App and ID document API will process documents in a matter of seconds. If you’re looking for a faster, integrated solution, simply get in touch with one of our AI experts.
Our ID document reading functionality is designed to be flexible, easy to integrate, and simple enough to white-label. Click here to get in touch with our sales team and discuss licensing within your app or platform.
Affinda's ID document extracting software uses machine learning and natural language processing to observe and adapt to differing documents. The software uses a dynamic approach where it is uses human like logic to recognise different document types and characteristics and build and apply a library of logical reasoning
Pricing varies depending on the integrations you’ll be using, as well as the number of ID documents you’ll be parsing each month. Please get in touch with our sales team to learn more!
Simply sign up for a free trial and start uploading your passports, licenses and birth certificates in bulk, in any common image or text format, such as .pdf, .doc, .docx, .odt, .png or .jpg. That’s all there is to it!
Our free online ID document parser accepts .pdf, .doc, .docx, .odt, .png and .jpg formats.