The LEADTOOLS ID Reader App for iPhone, iPad, and Android demonstrates the phenomenal power of the LEADTOOLS Forms Recognition Software Development Kit (SDK). Using only the CPU of a mobile device, the LEADTOOLS Forms SDK can extract data from live video and still-images, while dealing with real-world issues such as glare, movement of the camera and identification, and reflections on lamination. Remarkably, only taking fractions of a second, the ID Reader App can process, recognize, and extract data in real-time from physical driver’s licenses, work authorizations, and identification cards with only a smart phone.


• Automatically extracts data from real-time video and still images of driver’s licenses, work authorizations, and identification cards.

• The reader can extract data from the text or barcode present on identification cards

• Does not require internet access!

• All AI/ML enhanced recognition is performed on the device with NO data transfer to external servers. This ensures data privacy and compliance with common standards and regulations such as KYC/AML GDP, CCPA, HIPAA

• Blazing fast!

• Processing typically takes about 100ms per frame on modern mobile devices

• Advanced pre-processing algorithms handle image artifacts such as glare and reflections

• Extracts information at different angles

• Powered by LEADTOOLS Barcode and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engines, the world’s premier recognition libraries


Developer NOTE: This is one of the applications that is provided with source code in LEADTOOLS, the award-winning SDK for programmers. This application is built using the LEADTOOLS ID Reader SDK. It is intended to show developers some of the many capabilities that they can integrate into their own applications using LEADTOOLS. For more information or to download a free evaluation SDK of our full toolkit, including the source code for this app, visit: https://www.leadtools.com/sdk/ocr/forms/id-reader


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