Identity Verification
OCR for KYC: Auto-extract Document Data
Turn a photo of a document into structured fields — so customers stop typing and your onboarding gets faster and cleaner.
Asking customers to type their name, number and address off a document is slow and error-prone. OCR (Optical Character Recognition) APIs read an uploaded image of an Aadhaar, PAN, driving licence, passport, cheque or passbook and return the data as clean, structured fields — ready to prefill your form and cross-verify.
What OCR can read
- Aadhaar and PAN cards — name, number, DOB and more.
- Driving licence and passport — holder and document details.
- Cheques and bank passbooks — account number, IFSC, name.
- Generic KYC detection — identify the document type automatically.
Why OCR improves onboarding
- Speed — the customer snaps a photo instead of typing every field.
- Accuracy — fewer manual-entry mistakes in names and numbers.
- Verification-ready — extracted fields feed straight into your verification APIs.
OCR plus verification = the full picture
OCR extracts what a document says; verification APIs confirm it is genuine. The strongest flows combine them: OCR the PAN or Aadhaar to prefill the form, then run PAN or Aadhaar verification to confirm the details are valid and match the customer.
BILAPI offers OCR for Aadhaar, PAN, driving licence, passport, cheque, passbook and generic KYC detection — pair it with verification for a complete flow.