# Identity Document OCR

## Overview

Identity Document OCR (Optical Character Recognition) allows you to extract pre-determined data from photographed ID documents.

## Features

#### 🛃 Supported types of identity documents

* Passport
* Driving license
* ID card

#### Extracted data fields

* Full name&#x20;
* Nationality&#x20;
* Date of birth&#x20;
* Place of birth
* Gender&#x20;
* Date of issue
* Location of issue&#x20;
* Valid through&#x20;
* Document number
* Social security number (SSN)&#x20;
* Picture from passport&#x20;
* Machine-readable zone (MRZ)

#### Additional security checks

Here is a list of other checks you can make by combining Identity Document OCR with other Biometrid functionalities.

* Identify duplicates via image hashing
* Identify fraudulent documents via crosschecks
* Validate identity by comparing a selfie with the picture on a passport
