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