Colombia ID Card OCR

id number + name recognition

Code example:

curl --location --request POST 'https://api.ekycpro.com/v1/co_ocr/general' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
--header 'X-API-Key: AbcdEfgh' \
--data-urlencode 'img=BASE64_ENCODE_VALUE'

Response for ID card back recognition success

{
  "status": "OK",
  "message": {
    "CardNumber": "",
    "GivenNames": "",
    "Surname": "",
    "DateOfExpiry": "",
    "BloodType": "A+",
    "DateOfBirth": "17-ENE-1987",
    "DateOfIssue": "16-FEB-2005",
    "Gender": "M",
    "Height": "1.72",
    "PlaceOfBirth": "BOGOTA D.C (CUNDINAMARCA)",
    "PlaceOfIssue": "BOGOTA D.C."
  }
}

Response for ID card front recognition success

{
  "status": "OK",
  "message": {
    "CardNumber": "1.136.879.353",
    "GivenNames": "OSCAR FELIPE",
    "Surname": "RUEDA PLATA",
    "DateOfBirth": "19870117"
  }
}

Response for recognition fail

{
  "status": "FAIL",
  "message": "check input image and retry"
}

Response for input image not identity card

{
  "status": "FAIL",
  "message": "not identity card"
}

Response for not recognized card type

{
  "status": "FAIL",
  "message": "card not recognized"
}

Response for invalid request parameters

{
  "status": "INVALID_REQUEST",
  "message": "check request params"
}

Response for invalid image format

{
  "status": "IMAGE_INVALID_FORMAT",
  "message": "image format not support"
}

Response for image size larger than 2M

{
  "status": "IMAGE_INVALID_SIZE",
  "message": "image larger than 2M"
}

Response for server error

{
  "status": "INNER_ERROR",
  "message": "Inner error, please retry later"
}

HTTP request

POST https://api.ekycpro.com/v1/co_ocr/general

Request parameters

parameter	description
`img`	`string`, base64 encoded image. It is recommended that the image be less than 200KB, so it will be returned within 2 seconds, otherwise the return time will be longer.

Response format

fields	description
`status`	status code
`message`	`CardNumber`: card number
`GivenNames`: given names
`Surname`: surname
`Gender`: gender
`DateOfBirth`: birth date
`DateOfExpiry`: expiry date
`PlaceOfBirth`: birth place
`DateOfIssue`: issue date
`PlaceOfIssue`: issue place
`Height`: height
`BloodType`: blood type

Status code

status	description
`OK`	`charge`, success
`FAIL`	`charge`, image recognition error, please check input image
`INVALID_REQUEST`	`free`, invalid request parameters
`IMAGE_INVALID_FORMAT`	`free`, invalid image format, image format should be one of jpeg/jpg/png/bmp
`IMAGE_INVALID_SIZE`	`free`, invalid image size, should be less than 2M
`INNER_ERROR`	`free`, server error