# Extract Passport Details and MRZ: Passport OCR API | FastKYC

> Extract passport number, name, date of birth, nationality and expiry from a passport image, including the machine-readable zone.

Source: https://www.fastkyc.com/apis/passport-ocr/

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# OCR Passport API

Extract passport number, name, date of birth, nationality and expiry from a passport image, including the machine-readable zone.

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Overview

## What the OCR Passport API does

OCR Passport reads a passport data page and returns personal information, document metadata and address details in structured form.

Passports follow an international standard, including the machine-readable zone at the foot of the page. That consistency makes extraction highly reliable and gives an internal cross-check between the printed fields and the encoded ones.

## Built for

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Use cases

## Where teams use the OCR Passport API

-   Onboarding customers who use a passport as primary identity proof
    
-   Capturing traveller details for travel and forex services
    
-   Reading foreign passports during NRI onboarding
    
-   Screening for expired documents at point of capture
    

## Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

## Related APIs

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-   [OCR PAN APIRead PAN number, name, father's name and date of birth from a PAN card image and return them as structured, verifiable data.](/apis/pan-ocr/)
-   [OCR Voter Id APIRead the EPIC number, name, relation name, date of birth, gender and address from a voter ID card image as structured data, without manual entry.](/apis/voter-id-ocr/)

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-   One API key for every check
-   Verified against official Indian records
-   Built for onboarding at scale

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