MRZ Passport & ID Reader

Read ICAO Machine Readable Zones from passport and ID images (or paste raw MRZ text) and return structured identity fields with check-digit validation.

Uses local OCR (Tesseract) + the standard mrz parser — no LLM / Google Vision API key.

What it extracts

Field	Meaning
format	TD3 (passport), TD2, or TD1 (ID card)
documentCode / documentNumber	Document type and number
issuingState / nationality	ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes (as printed in MRZ)
lastName / firstName	Names (Latin transliteration per ICAO)
sex	male / female / unspecified
birthDate / expirationDate	Normalized YYYY-MM-DD
personalNumber	Optional personal number when present
checkDigitsValid	All MRZ check digits passed
valid	Parser’s full validation (includes known state-code checks)
mrzLines	Raw MRZ lines used for the parse

MRZ is Latin-only by ICAO design (A–Z, 0–9, <). Non-Latin names are already transliterated on the document.

Pricing

• $0.01 per successfully parsed MRZ ($10.00 / 1,000 results)
• Failed images and invalid/non-MRZ inputs go to the errors dataset and are not billed

How to use

1. Paste passport/ID image URLs (MRZ must be visible), or paste raw MRZ lines in mrzTexts
2. Keep onlyValidMrz enabled unless you want partial OCR dumps billed
3. Start the Actor
4. Read structured records from the Dataset

Example input (raw text — great for testing)

{
  "mrzTexts": [
    "P<UTOERIKSSON<<ANNA<MARIA<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<\nL898902C36UTO7408122F1204159ZE184226B<<<<<10"
  ],
  "onlyValidMrz": true,
  "maxConcurrency": 3
}

Example input (images)

{
  "imageUrls": [
    "https://example.com/passport-mrz.jpg"
  ],
  "onlyValidMrz": true,
  "maxConcurrency": 3
}

Example dataset item

{
  "imageId": "mrz-1",
  "hasMrz": true,
  "format": "TD3",
  "documentCode": "P",
  "documentNumber": "L898902C3",
  "issuingState": "UTO",
  "nationality": "UTO",
  "lastName": "ERIKSSON",
  "firstName": "ANNA MARIA",
  "sex": "female",
  "birthDate": "1974-08-12",
  "expirationDate": "2012-04-15",
  "checkDigitsValid": true,
  "confidence": 1,
  "error": null
}

Notes

• Prefer sharp, well-lit photos of the MRZ band (bottom of the data page).
• Specimen country code UTO is used in ICAO examples; check digits pass, but valid may be false because UTO is not a real ISO state.
• Document images contain personal data — handle outputs according to your privacy obligations.