Detect, ocrize and parse (client or server side or from command line) the Machine Readable Zone of passports and other documents
npm install mrz-scannerDetect, ocrize and parse (client or server side, or from command line) the Machine Readable Zone of passports and other documents
Using mrz-detection written for NodeJS by Daniel Kostro and Michaël Zasso.
Copyright (c) 2018-2019 ALSENET SAAuthor(s):
Luc Deschenaux
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
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Quickstart
Web demo
The web demo is at https://alsenet-labs.github.io/mrz-scanner/dist/index.html (nothing is uploaded)
Web demo from filesystem
The code is "same-origin friendly". That means it can be run in the browser from the filesystem (no web server required), with eg:$3
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git clone https://github.com/alsenet-labs/mrz-scanner
xdg-open mrz-scanner/dist/index.html
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git clone https://github.com/alsenet-labs/mrz-scanner
cd mrz-scanner
npm install
gulp dist
xdg-open dist/index.html
`Web demo from web server
You can build the scripts, start a web server and open a browser, with eg:
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git clone https://github.com/alsenet-labs/mrz-scanner
cd mrz-scanner
npm start
`Command line tool
You can also scan documents from the command line using this repository or the latest published npm package.
On success the result will be stored in a file suffixed by ".mrz.json" along the original image by default.$3
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git clone https://github.com/alsenet-labs/mrz-scanner
cd mrz-scanner
npm install .
mrz2json [ -d|--dest-dir ] [...]
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npm install -g mrz-scanner
mrz2json [ -d|--dest-dir ] [...]
``Supported image formats
The following formats can be loaded by image-js:
* PNG (8 or 16 bits, color or greyscale, with or without alpha)
* JPEG
* TIFF (8 or 16 bits, greyscale)