Text Recognition

All services related to OCR and Document Scanning

Text recognition (OCR)

• OCTUS SDK -Android Release v3.4.0 Bug fix

• Camera API2 frame colour issue resolved.

• OCTUS SDK – iOS Release v1.5.3 Swift version update

OCTUS SDK - Android Release v3.3.0

• Updated responses to scanning front and back of ID cards.

• The responses for frontIdScanStatus and backIdScanStatus are improved with response codes of Success, Fail or NA (Not Applicable)

Android SDK Release v3.2.0

https://github.com/frslabs/octus-android

• Added support for barcode detection

• Code migrated to AndriodX

• Added OCR support for Business PAN

• Changed cheque scan instruction text visibility

• General bug fixes and scan speed improvements

OCTUS SDK – iOS Release v1.5.2

• Bug fixes

iOS SDK Release v1.3.4

• Bug fixes

• Supporting Cheque MICR code

iOS SDK Release v1.3.0

https://github.com/frslabs/octus-ios

• For iOS, Cordova plugin support has been implemented

• Added native scan for Indian IDs with OCR greater than iOS13

• Added API support to OCR documents in below iOS13

• Added manual scan option (same as in Android)

• Added scan orientation option to avoid scanning with incorrect angles

• Added Aadhaar masking without OCR

• Added passport scan with address page

• Improved scan speed for Aadhaar

• Added support for barcode detection

OCR API Release v1.3

• Added support for automated card rotation detection

• Improved support for photocopy images

• Improved card detection

• Improved RC parsing

• Support for encrypted Aadhaar card

• Support for Egypt ID (Arabic language support)

• Support for Egypt ID Verification as per CBE guidelines

• Improved OCR accuracy for India, Philippines, Malaysia and UAE

The following changes were released for 2020-Q3

• Improved support for MRZ based cards

• OCR support added for below IDs

• Support for International IDs: Indonesia:  NPWP  KTP  Passport  Driving Licence

• Support for international IDs: Italy:  NID  Driving Licence

Identify Document API (IDENTUS)

• Detect and decode general purpose document objects such as barcodes (1-D, 2-D), qr code, signature, etc.

• Identify the type of the uploaded document image/file. Supported documents are 'aadhaarback', 'aadhaarfront', 'voterback', 'voterfront','passportback', 'passportfront', 'pan', 'cheque', 'dl', 'rc'.

• Support for automated card/document orientation detection

• Support for automated document classification using batch processing

• This system can be retrained to support any number of new classes using the very limited document examples (as low as 50 samples).

• Q4 Added support for new documents in document classification API (/card/predict)

• Q4 Now supporting the following documents: ['aadhaarback', 'aadhaarfront', 'bank_form', 'bank_statement', 'cheque', 'dl', 'form16', 'invoice', 'pan', 'passportback', 'passportfront', 'payslip', 'rc', 'voterback', 'voterfront']

Compress & Convert API (CONVUS)

• Convert image/file between any of the mentioned formats which are [JPEG, WEBP, PNG, TIFF, PDF].

• Compress any of the mentioned image/file formats which are [JPEG, WEBP, PNG, TIFF, PDF].

• Supports variable/adjustable compression values Supports image resize for maximum size reduction

• Supports batch processing for conversion as well as compression.

Access the OCR APIs here.