Regula Document Reader Web Service 1.2

Regula Document Reader Web Service is a server-side solution for automated ID document processing delivered through a simple HTTP/HTTPS API. It accepts images or PDFs of passports, ID cards, and driver’s licenses, then detects the document type, extracts data, and returns structured results for easy integration into web, mobile, and back-office systems.

Key capabilities

• Document classification: Identifies the type and issue country of the document.
• Data extraction: Reads MRZ, visual zones (OCR), and barcodes to capture names, dates, document numbers, and more.
• Validation: Performs MRZ checksum and format checks, basic date and consistency validation, and standard ICAO compliance checks.
• Output: Returns normalized, structured JSON with fields, values, confidence scores, and optional cropped images of zones.
• Integration-friendly: Stateless REST API suitable for microservices; works with images captured on web or mobile clients.
• Deployment flexibility: Can be hosted on-premises or in a private cloud and scaled horizontally; suitable for privacy-sensitive environments.
• Security and privacy controls: Configurable handling of images and extracted data to help meet regulatory and organizational policies.
• Extensibility: Can be paired with compatible capture SDKs and hardware to enhance accuracy and, where supported, enable additional authenticity checks.

Typical uses

• Digital onboarding and KYC/AML workflows
• Age and identity verification in e-commerce and fintech
• Customer check-in for travel, hospitality, and mobility services
• Automated back-office document processing and record updates

By centralizing ID document parsing and validation behind a web API, Regula Document Reader Web Service helps teams add reliable document intelligence to their applications without embedding heavy client-side libraries.

Regula Document Reader Web Service is developed by Regula. The most popular versions of this product among our users are: 1.0 and 1.2.