Official Document Identification and Data Extraction using Templates and OCR
Cosmin Irimia, Florin Harbuzariu, Ionut Hazi, Adrian Iftene
Abstract
Nowadays anyone possesses at least one personal document, whether it is an identity card or a driving license. In many of our daily activities, working with documents or the necessity to present them in different contexts became something normal. Given the current situation, we are all going through, having to deal with the current pandemic situation, we have adapted to some extent to new ways of communicating, working, and resolving things, in general, using Internet tools and platforms. In this context, a small part of the fight we have with the bureaucracy has been won, many of the documents that once could only be brought only in physical locations can now be scanned and sent by email or attached to a form on the website. Hoping that the pandemic has also taught us good things, we want to believe that these ways of communication will be kept in place even after this issue is over, to avoid unnecessary waste of time and congestion. The focus of this project is developing an application that can create textual information data from a simple image provided by the user that will enable the possibility of sharing digital versions of documents, making our lives so much better.