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Extract PII data from Nigerian ID documents
How It Works
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.
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https://api.appruve.co/v1/verifications/selfie_image/ocr/ng/{id_type}
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id_type should be replaced with the specific ID type. Supported ID types are 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.1
curl --location --request POST 'https://api.appruve.co/v1/verifications/selfie_image/ocr/ng/driver_license' \
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--header 'Authorization: Bearer TOKEN' \
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--form '[email protected]"/path/ng_driver_license_1.jpg"'
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An example response is given below.
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{
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"id_details": {
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"id_number": "12345678",
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"first_name": "John",
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"middle_name": "Doe",
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"date_of_birth": "2017-07-21",
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"gender": "M",
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"id_photo": "Signed URL of the extracted id face photo"
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},
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"transaction_reference": "faf2b8d7-0699-4102-8ee8-c83150a7cadd",
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"face_sharpness": 38.9,
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"face_brightness": 65.23
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}
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