Nigeria 🇳🇬
Verify if a Nigerian ID document is legit through OCR
Appruve's OCR API allows you to extract the Personally identifiable information from a Nigeria ID document including the ID face photo. The endpoint is constructed as follows.
https://api.appruve.co/v1/verifications/selfie_image/ocr/ng/{id_type}
id_type should be replaced with the specific ID type. Supported ID types include passport, voter, driver_license, and national_id
The request is a multipart POST request as shown in the example below. The id_image parameter is required and the value could be a File Object or a web URL.
curl --location --request POST 'https://api.appruve.co/v1/verifications/selfie_image/ocr/ng/driver_license' \--header 'Authorization: Bearer TOKEN' \--form '[email protected]"/path/ng_driver_license_1.jpg"'
An example response is given below.
{"id_details": {"id_number": "12345678","first_name": "John","middle_name": "Doe","date_of_birth": "2017-07-21","gender": "M","id_photo": "Signed URL of the extracted id face photo"},"transaction_reference": "faf2b8d7-0699-4102-8ee8-c83150a7cadd","face_sharpness": 38.9,"face_brightness": 65.23}
The returned transaction_reference value should be used for the Upload Selfie endpoint.