New Romanian Identity Cards OCR

The Druid API engine supports OCR and data extraction for Romanian identity cards issued with a CIP (electronic chip), applicable to identity cards issued starting in January 2024.

Request

Method	POST
API Resource URL (Endpoint)	The endpoint of the Druid Vision New_IdentityCard service. For information on how to get the endpoint, see Druid Vision.
Authorization	Select Bearer Token and provide the Druid Vision Token. For information on how to get the endpoint, see Druid Vision.
Headers	Content-Type: “multipart/form-data”
Body without face validation	“file”: <attached document file> (file attachment). Add both the front and the back of the new identity card. Supported formats: png, jpg, pdf. If extraction fails due to issues like poor image quality, you can skip any of the following validation checks: Sex DateOfBirth ExpireDate SIRUTA - to skip Address validation from the identity card back. Add the skipValidations parameter in the request body as many times as validation checks you want to escape from validation. Note:  Skipping validations is available in DRUID 8.1 and higher.
Body with face validation	“file”: <attached document file> (file attachment). Add the front of the new identity card. “selfie”: <attached selfie photo> (file attachment) Supported formats: png, jpg, pdf. Note:  The user needs to smile in the selfie, otherwise the face validation will fail. Note:  You can skip the same validation checks listed at Body without face validation.

Response

Data Returned by MRZ interpretation is found in the Data section of the response.

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Validations

Validations performed in the MRZ section:

• DocumentNumber - checksum cross-checked with MRZ Line_2 first control digit.
• DateOfBirth - checksum cross-checked with MRZ Line_2 second control digit.
• DateOfExpiry - checksum cross-checked with MRZ Line_2 third control digit.
• Line_2 - checksum of the entire MRZ line 2 (if any of the above fails, the entire line fails and the entire MRZ checksum fails).
• Sex - validation on values “F” or “M”.

Based on Code and Nationality, an existing template of the OCR service is identified:

• If Code = “ID” and Nationality = “ROU”, the template “Identity Card” is used.
• If Code = “IS” and Nationality = “ROU”, the template “RO_ResidenceCard” is used.

The results of the “Identity Card” template provide the following validations:

• CNP - Status Invalid if the checksum of the CNP cross-checked with the control digit fails. The CNP validation is performed against the ID values provided in the reference table below.

ID	County of Birth
0	Invalid
1	Alba
2	Arad
3	Argeș
4	Bacău
5	Bihor
6	Bistrița_Năsăud
7	Botoșani
8	Brașov
9	Brăila
10	Buzău
11	Caraș_Severin
12	Cluj
13	Constanța
14	Covasna
15	Dâmbovița
16	Dolj
17	Galați
18	Gorj
19	Harghita
20	Hunedoara
21	Ialomița
22	Iași
23	Ilfov
24	Maramureș
25	Mehedinți
26	Mureș
27	Neamț
28	Olt
29	Prahova
30	Satu_Mare
31	Sălaj
32	Sibiu
33	Suceava
34	Teleorman
35	Timiș
36	Tulcea
37	Vaslui
38	Vâlcea
39	Vrancea
40	București
41	București_Sector_1
42	București_Sector_2
43	București_Sector_3
44	București_Sector_4
45	București_Sector_5
46	București_Sector_6
47	București_Sector_7
48	București_Sector_8
51	Călărași
52	Giurgiu
80	Outside_Romania

• Validity - Status Invalid if the OCR service fails to retrieve information in IssueDate and ExpiryDate.
• MRZ - Status Invalid if at least one of the cross-checks on the MRZ field fails (document number, date of birth, date of expiry, sex, IssuingState).
• Sex - Status Invalid if the cross-check of the following fields fail: Sex from CNP, Sex from Document, Sex from MRZ.
• DateOfBirth - Status Invalid if the cross-check of the following fields fail: DateOfBirth from CNP, DateOfBirth from Document, DateOfBirth from MRZ.
• IssueDate - Status Invalid if the cross-check of the following fields fail: IssueDate from Document, IssueDate from MRZ.
• ExpireDate - Status Invalid if the cross-check of the following fields fail: ExpireDate from Document, ExpireDate from MRZ.
• SIRUTA - Status Invalid if the value of field Locality cannot be matched to the SIRUTA dictionary.
• Face - Status Invalid if the "Face.Confidence" is not 1.0 or "Invalid: you forgot to smile" if the customer is not smiling in the selfie. This validation is done for OCR of Romanian identity cards with selfie.

If the data cannot be extracted by the OCR Service, validations on all of the above fields will fail.

Status field

1. InvalidDocument. All validations on the document failed.
2. Partial. There are failed validations.
3. Complete. All validations succeeded.
4. InvalidTemplate. Template is invalid (for development purpose only).
5. InvalidImage. Image is invalid (format, size).

If Status is other than “Complete”, you see the error and the validation details in the “ValidationResult” attribute.

Image Validation

To ensure optimal OCR results, the API automatically enhances the image before processing by applying multiple image optimization algorithms.

Supported formats: PNG, JPG, PDF.