Pan Aadhar OCR

Extract Text from Pan and Aadhar Cards

Pan Aadhar OCR is a python package which takes an Image of a valid Pan/Aadhar Document and extracts the text from it and returns the information in JSON format.

• Easy to use
• Returns information in JSON
• Works even faster with the GPU
• If you don't have a GPU, you can still run it on CPU, but slower

Tech

Pan Aadhar OCR uses a number of open source projects to work properly:

• EasyOCR - Ready-to-use OCR with 80+ supported languages and all popular writing scripts including Latin, Chinese, Arabic, Devanagari, Cyrillic and etc.
• Python - Python is a programming language that lets you work quickly and integrate systems more effectively.
• OpenCV - OpenCV is open source and released under the BSD 3-Clause License. It is free for commercial use.

Installation

This library requires Python 3.6+ to run. As well as you also need to install tesseract on your system. If you have Linux based system just run:

sudo apt install tesseract-ocr

On windows system you will need to download Tessaract from here. and Add it to the Path.

Install the package.

pip install pan-aadhar-ocr

Then Import the package.

from pan_aadhar_ocr import Pan_Info_Extractor

Create an instance of the extractor.

extractor = Pan_Info_Extractor()

Pass the image to the extractor to get the results.

extractor.info_extractor('/content/pan test.jpeg')

This will return a result as following:

{
    "Pan_number": "EKAPS0276J", 
    "Name": "John Kevin Doe",
    "Father_Name": "Kevin Doe",
    "DOB": "31/10/1992"
}