cardscan
Python command-line tool to parse scanned documents with cards to various data structures
features:
- Reads cards from any valid image source for SimpleCV (Currently expects 300 dpi images)
- Outputs a yaml or json data structure
- Reads multiple cards from a single image (Multiple cards on the scanbed)
Supported cards:
- Dutch personal indentification card
- Dutch driving licence
Installation
cardscan depends on python2.7, SimpleCV, pyyaml, tesseract-ocr and python-tesseract
$ sudo apt-get install python2 tesseract-ocr
# simplecv instructions
$ sudo apt-get install ipython python-opencv python-scipy python-numpy python-pygame python-setuptools python-pip
$ sudo pip install https://github.com/sightmachine/SimpleCV/zipball/develop
# python-tesseract installation
$ wget "https://bitbucket.org/3togo/python-tesseract/downloads/python-tesseract_0.9-0.3ubuntu0_amd64.deb"
$ sudo dpkg -i python-tesseract_0.9-0.3ubuntu0_amd64.deb
$ sudo apt-get -f install
# pyyaml installation
$ sudo pip install pyyaml
# cardscan installation
$ git clone git@github.com:MartijnBraam/cardscan.git
$ cd cardscan
$ echo ":)"Example output
This is censored example output from a scan of a dutch indentification card
- card:
class: personal-indentification
type: nl.government.idcard
authority: Burg. van Midden-Drenthe
country: nl
documentId: ********
person:
birth: {date: '1900-01-01', place: Amsterdam}
gender: male
givenNames: Example First Names
height: 1.92
nationality: Nederlandse
personalId: ********
surname: Example-Lastname
validity:
start: 2012-1-09
end: 2017-1-09