# Certificate of Incorporation Extraction OCR API | FastKYC

> Extract the company name, CIN, incorporation date and registered office from a Certificate of Incorporation image for faster business onboarding (KYB).

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# Certificate Of Incorporation API

Extract the company name, CIN, incorporation date and registered office from a Certificate of Incorporation image for faster business onboarding (KYB).

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## What the Certificate Of Incorporation API does

Certificate Of Incorporation OCR reads a company's incorporation certificate and returns the registered company name, Corporate Identity Number, date of incorporation and registered office address.

The CIN is the key that unlocks everything else about a company. Extracting it accurately from the certificate lets you move straight to registry lookups without asking the customer to find and retype a twenty-one-character identifier.

## Where teams use the Certificate Of Incorporation API

1.  Onboarding a company from its incorporation certificate
    
2.  Extracting a CIN before querying MCA records
    
3.  Confirming incorporation date and registered office
    
4.  Digitising company documents in a corporate KYC file
    

## Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

What is a CIN?

The Corporate Identity Number is the twenty-one-character identifier the Ministry of Corporate Affairs assigns to every registered company. It encodes listing status, industry, state and year of incorporation.

Does it verify the company is active?

No. Use Get Company Details to pull current status, directors and compliance from MCA records.

Does it work for LLPs?

LLPs are issued a similar certificate with an LLPIN rather than a CIN. Extraction of the printed fields works comparably.

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