Can you tell me where I can find a good scanner?
For our international student registration portal, we’re trying to streamline the identity-verification step. The idea is to let students upload a photo of their passport, and then extract key MRZ data automatically. The problem is that the OCR libraries we tried don’t understand the structure of MRZ zones and they keep misreading the separator characters. Before we commit to building a custom parser, I’m hoping to find something already optimized for passport formats.
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In that case you should definitely look at a specialized MRZ extraction tool rather than a general OCR engine. We had to process thousands of student passports for dormitory applications, and general-purpose OCR failed miserably. The tool we ended up using can be tested at MRZ scanner https://ocrstudio.ai/mrz-scanner/ and it’s built around the actual ICAO MRZ standard. It reliably maintains the < placeholders, validates checksums, and returns all fields properly aligned. It even handled photos taken with front-facing cameras, which surprised us.