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4.8/5 (30+ reviews)
AI‑Powered passport OCR API for accurate data extraction
Mindee OCR API extracts structured passport data that adapts to any layout and global styles. Capture Holder's name, ID number, expiry, country... from scanned images and PDFs.
Try with a Passport
No credit card required
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Trusted by top-tier teams worldwide
Why choose Mindee as passport OCR API
Reliable data extraction
Exact identity parsing, no manual data. Automate your KYC workflow.
Developer-friendly API
Immediate time-to-value with our SDKs & no-code tools integration.
Enterprise-grade security
Host your data where you need (EU or US) and enjoy our SOC 2 Type II certified API.
Multi-languages/formats
Our API supports any file formats (PDF, JPEG, PNG,...) , in any languages or alphabets.
Scalable implementation
Handle growing passport volumes effortlessly, with cost-effective API
4.8/5 sur G2
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4.9/5 sur Capterra
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Deep understanding for any passport fields you need, with modern OCR
A sample of passport fields automatically detected
MRZ Lines
Passport number
Date of birth
Date of expiry
Nationality
Check digits
Surname
Given names
Gender
Place of birth
Full name
Date of issue
Issuing authority
Portrait photo
Signature
Holograms
RFID chip indicator
Height
Eye color
Endorsements
... and more!
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Most advanced AI OCR features getting your passport extraction to the next level
Powered by advanced AI and designed for security needs, our passport OCR API solution delivers unmatched accuracy and efficiency to ingest and extract identity and MRZ data.
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Accelerate verification by automatically breaking multi-page uploads into separate IDs. Our solution detects document boundaries to split batches into distinct identity records ready for secure biometric and data extraction.
Automate your pipeline by sorting identity docs instantly. Our OCR API distinguishes passports, ID cards, and driver licenses, routing each file to its specific schema for streamlined verification management.
Digitize identity docs by detecting multiple IDs scanned on a single page. Our OCR API isolates and crops each card or passport into a standalone file, ensuring every document is processed with total security.
Instantly digitize passports into clean JSON
Our neural engine redefines identity capture by instantly mapping names, passport numbers, expiry dates, and MRZ codes from worldwide documents into validated JSON. Built for secure onboarding, it bridges the gap between physical IDs and your digital KYC infrastructure or user database. Accelerate your compliance and stop manual data entry with high-speed, reliable OCR output.
Global API for secure travel check-in
Verified, KYC-ready data for your system
Robust API to ingest passports easier
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Upload any file formats, from all over the world
Process PDFs, scans, and photos without templates. The API adapts to languages, currencies, and multi‑page documents automatically.
Line-item level extraction
Extract line items, key fields, and tables from any document layout—ideal for business process automation and data intelligence.
Select and map necessary fields
You can customize your data schema, to extract only fields you need and structure them on‑the‑go. Mindee API is a template-free solution.
Leverage Mindee API to empower your security and compliance teams to...
Automate ID data capture
Verify in secs
Ensure MRZ record precision
Streamline onboarding
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What does it mean doing passport OCR with Mindee API ?
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Sign up for free (14‑day free trial)
Sign up to try Mindee's passport OCR API. Fast authentication with Google & Github, no credit card required.
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Use our pre-built passport model or create yours
Start with our ready-to-use passport template, or build your own from scratch to define the key fields you want to extract.
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Live test your settings
On Mindee's app, you can live test your model set up. Update on‑the‑go with our assistant.
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Setup your API integration to process at scale
Once your model performed as you want on a single document, create your API key and integrate it to your workflow.
Developers and technical profiles already used it !
Add modern AI-based Mindee OCR API to your product, in minutes.
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Mindee is an integrated document processing platform backed by reliable AI technology. The service has an intuitive and user-friendly interface and provides highly accurate results extracting data from various document types, especially financial receipts and invoices, which are relatively complex and require specialized optical character recognition (OCR) services. The platform provides seamless integration with our current data processing workflows through customizable APIs, allowing for efficient data extraction and automation.
Amar A.
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Mindee is a software that helps us to convert all of our physical business data like bills, invoices, warranty cards, calendar, recipts received to us into a digital documents that can be stored in our drive and can be uploaded in different type of Excel sheets so that all the updates can be maintained and a proper analytics of transactions can be kept by the financial team
Shiv K.
Mindee is a web based tool that help us in scanning and reading different type of documents like identity cards, invoices, proposal plans etc and extract all the information with its AI and then it provides all the information and data associated with these documents a structured way.
Gaurav K.
Excellent. In addition to their great product, the sales team has always been proactive on how they could help us leverage the maximum results from their product. It was like having an additional product manager on our side
Jeff B.
Mindee works reliably and delivers good performance. The OCR data is accurate, and the API is stable. It works like a charm.
Manuel B.
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Mindee is a web based tool that help us in scanning and reading different type of documents like identity cards, invoices, proposal plans etc and extract all the information with its AI and then it provides all the information and data associated with these documents a structured way.
Simon
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Ready to modernize your passport OCR processing ?
Add modern AI-based passport OCR API to your product, in minutes.
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FAQ to know more about Mindee's API
Does the passport OCR work on low-quality images?
Yes, our models like the passport models are trained on diverse real-world datasets to handle constraints such as blurriness, folds, ink stains... This ensures optimal extraction performance on documents of varying quality.
How does the passport reader API work?
Leveraging AI and deep learning, our API quickly interprets passport images, turning them into structured data for easy use within your applications.
How complicated is it to integrate the passport OCR API?
Mindee's API follows HTTP standards in order to allow any developer to integrate the passport OCR API into their applications easily.We also offer a set of client libraries in all the main back-end languages and no-code tools. You can check out our API documentation for more details.
Is Mindee's passport OCR API free to use?
We provide a 14 days free trial so you can fully test our passport OCR API — no credit card required. After this, we offer different pricing tiers depending of the volume of pages processed and the features you might need. See the pricing page for more information
What is the passport OCR accuracy?
Accuracy of our passport API is generally above 95% for most fields. We compute accuracy and precision metrics every week on an evolutive dataset that includes more than 50 countries with a wide variety of passport (formats, languages, qualities etc..). By activating some of our features, accuracy can be even closer to 100% by fine tuning your model to your use case. Feel free to try out yourself and see how it works on your data.
Can it handle passports from any country or in different languages?
Yes, our passport OCR API is able to extract data from multiple languages in any alphabet from all countries.
How can I test the passport OCR API?
The passport OCR API is available to any user having an account on our platform and includes a 14 days free trial.To test our APIs, you only have to create an account using this link, and you'll be able to upload file in our user interface to see ID OCR in action, as well as the json output.
