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Philippines Driver's License OCR

license number + name recognition

Code example:

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

Response for recognition success

{
"status": "OK",
"message": {
"name": "SANCHEZ,CARLOS",
"lastName": "SANCHEZ",
"firstName": "CARLOS",
"middleName": "",
"nationality": "PHL",
"sex": "F",
"address": "166 E TRES DE ABRIL ST CEBU CITY CEBU 6000",
"licenseNo": "G01-90-189371",
"expiresDate": "2023/11/03",
"agencyCode": "G01",
"birthday": "1969/11/03"
}
}

Response for recognition fail

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

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/ph_ocr_dl/general

Request parameters

parameterdescription
imgstring, 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

fieldsdescription
statusstatus code
messagename: full name
lastName: last name
firstName: first name
middleName: middle name
nationality: citizenship
sex: gender, ‘M’ or ‘F’
address: address
licenseNo: license number
expiresDate: license expiry Date
agencyCode: agency code
birthday: date of birth

Status code

statusdescription
OKcharge, success
FAILcharge, image recognition error, please check input image
INVALID_REQUESTfree, invalid request parameters
IMAGE_INVALID_FORMATfree, invalid image format, image format should be one of jpeg/jpg/png/bmp
IMAGE_INVALID_SIZEfree, invalid image size, should be less than 2M
INNER_ERRORfree, server error