Have you ever heard about AZYO’s Real OCR? Do you know what OCR stands for? 

Well, AZYO is here to simplify that for you and get you familiar with the same!

OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition. It’s a process of extracting data or information from handwritten or typed documents or from image files captured through a digital camera or printed texts and converting that information into machine-encoded texts or machine-readable texts. Basically, its application is to digitize hardcopy or paper documents.

In today’s world, identity verification is a basic protocol that is needed everywhere to verify any individual’s genuinity, and as a part of KYC, AML, GDPR & CCPA compliance.

Be it any industry, any type of examination, traveling across states or nations, identity documents are needed to verify whether a person is legit or not, and generally, these documents are manually verified by individuals of respective authorities.

AZYO has developed a Real OCR engine that helps individuals and businesses to extract data from different kinds of documents and convert the same into digital files. Thereby, making the identity verification process simpler, convenient, and faster.

AZYO’s Real OCR engine supports a wide range of documents like Passport, Driver’s License, Lease Agreement, Resident Permits, Bank Cheques, Tax Invoices, and likewise. Moreover, the images captured by AZYO’s OCR engine are further analyzed with machine learning algorithms in order to validate the authenticity of the documents.