I'm working on a project where I need to verify users' identities by having them take pictures of their IDs. I need to extract information from these images for verification, but I'm struggling to find a reliable method. If you've done something similar, I'd love to hear how you approached it!
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OCR libraries like Tesseract are great for text extraction from IDs. I've had decent success using Tesseract with Python. Just don't forget to preprocess the images first—crop them to focus on the important parts, adjust the contrast, or even convert them to grayscale. Also, keep in mind that working with ID images brings legal obligations around privacy and data security, so be cautious with how you store this info.
What tools did you use for image processing? I noticed that feeding raw images to Tesseract often led to poor results.