Passport

The Node.js SDK supports the Mindee V1 Passport API.

Product Specifications

Specification	Details
Endpoint Name	passport
Recommended Version	v1.1
Supports Polling/Webhooks	❌ No
Support Synchronous HTTP Calls	✔️ Yes
Geography	🌐 Global

Quick-Start

Using the sample below, we are going to illustrate how to extract the data that we want using the SDK.

Sample Code

const mindee = require("mindee");
// for TS or modules:
// import * as mindee from "mindee";

// Init a new client
const mindeeClient = new mindee.Client({ apiKey: "my-api-key" });

// Load a file from disk
const inputSource = mindeeClient.docFromPath("/path/to/the/file.ext");

// Parse the file
const apiResponse = mindeeClient.parse(
  mindee.product.PassportV1,
  inputSource
);

// Handle the response Promise
apiResponse.then((resp) => {
  // print a string summary
  console.log(resp.document.toString());
});

Sample Output (rST)

########
Document
########
:Mindee ID: 18e41f6c-16cd-4f8e-8cd2-00ca02a35764
:Filename: default_sample.jpg

Inference
#########
:Product: mindee/passport v1.0
:Rotation applied: Yes

Prediction
==========
:Country Code: GBR
:ID Number: 707797979
:Given Name(s): HENERT
:Surname: PUDARSAN
:Date of Birth: 1995-05-20
:Place of Birth: CAMTETH
:Gender: M
:Date of Issue: 2012-04-22
:Expiry Date: 2017-04-22
:MRZ Line 1: P<GBRPUDARSAN<<HENERT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
:MRZ Line 2: 7077979792GBR9505209M1704224<<<<<<<<<<<<<<00

Page Predictions
================

Page 0
------
:Country Code: GBR
:ID Number: 707797979
:Given Name(s): HENERT
:Surname: PUDARSAN
:Date of Birth: 1995-05-20
:Place of Birth: CAMTETH
:Gender: M
:Date of Issue: 2012-04-22
:Expiry Date: 2017-04-22
:MRZ Line 1: P<GBRPUDARSAN<<HENERT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
:MRZ Line 2: 7077979792GBR9505209M1704224<<<<<<<<<<<<<<00

Standard Fields

These fields are generic and used in several products.

Basic Field

Each prediction object contains a set of fields that inherit from the generic Field class.

A typical Field object will have the following attributes:

• value (number | string): corresponds to the field value. Can be undefined if no value was extracted.

• confidence (number): the confidence score of the field prediction.

• boundingBox ([Point, Point, Point, Point]): contains exactly 4 relative vertices (points) coordinates of a right rectangle containing the field in the document.

• polygon (Point[]): contains the relative vertices coordinates (Point) of a polygon containing the field in the image.

• pageId (number): the ID of the page, always undefined when at document-level.

• reconstructed (boolean): indicates whether an object was reconstructed (not extracted as the API gave it).

A Point simply refers to an array of two numbers ([number, number]).

Aside from the previous attributes, all basic fields have access to a toString() method that can be used to print their value as a string.

Date Field

Aside from the basic Field attributes, the date field DateField also implements the following:

• dateObject (Date): an accessible representation of the value as a JavaScript object.

String Field

The text field StringField only has one constraint: its value is a string (or undefined).

Attributes

The following fields are extracted for Passport V1:

Date of Birth

birthDate (DateField): The date of birth of the passport holder.

console.log(result.document.inference.prediction.birthDate.value);

Place of Birth

birthPlace (StringField): The place of birth of the passport holder.

console.log(result.document.inference.prediction.birthPlace.value);

Country Code

country (StringField): The country's 3 letter code (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3).

console.log(result.document.inference.prediction.country.value);

Expiry Date

expiryDate (DateField): The expiry date of the passport.

console.log(result.document.inference.prediction.expiryDate.value);

Gender

gender (StringField): The gender of the passport holder.

console.log(result.document.inference.prediction.gender.value);

Given Name(s)

givenNames (StringField[]): The given name(s) of the passport holder.

for (const givenNamesElem of result.document.inference.prediction.givenNames) {
  console.log(givenNamesElem.value);
}

ID Number

idNumber (StringField): The passport's identification number.

console.log(result.document.inference.prediction.idNumber.value);

Date of Issue

issuanceDate (DateField): The date the passport was issued.

console.log(result.document.inference.prediction.issuanceDate.value);

MRZ Line 1

mrz1 (StringField): Machine Readable Zone, first line

console.log(result.document.inference.prediction.mrz1.value);

MRZ Line 2

mrz2 (StringField): Machine Readable Zone, second line

console.log(result.document.inference.prediction.mrz2.value);

Surname

surname (StringField): The surname of the passport holder.

console.log(result.document.inference.prediction.surname.value);