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10d ago

What’s the best way to automate driving licence data entry?

One thing we noticed while working on document automation is that onboarding can become unnecessarily repetitive when customers have to manually enter information from their driving licence. A driving licence already contains useful information such as the name, address, licence number, and expiration date. The challenge is getting that information from an uploaded image into the application without making someone type everything manually. This is one of the problems we’ve been working on with our Driving Licence OCR API. The basic workflow is quite straightforward: Upload licence → Extract information → Use the data in your application The interesting part is what happens after extraction. OCR isn't the same as verification. OCR handles converting the document into machine-readable data, while verification can be handled as a separate step depending on the application's requirements. For us, this approach makes sense for use cases such as car rentals, insurance, banking, customer onboarding, and digital record management. I'm curious how other developers approach this: Do you build document OCR internally, use a third-party API, or combine OCR with your existing verification workflow? Would be interesting to hear what has worked well for others. Source: AZAPI Driving Licence OCR API