Italian Driving Licence (Patente di Guida) OCR API

What Makes the Italian patente di guida Hard to Parse

The Italian patente di guida is issued by the Motorizzazione Civile (Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport). The Italian patente di guida uses the EU card format with numbered fields: 1 cognome, 2 nome, 3 date and place of birth, 4a and 4b issue and expiry dates, 4c the issuing office, 5 the licence number and 9 the categories. Validity depends on the holder's age, so the expiry date matters more than the issue date for any check, and the card carries no address.

One API Call, Named Fields

The StructOCR Driver License OCR API returns the licence number (field 5), cognome and nome (fields 1 and 2), date and place of birth (field 3), issue and expiry dates (4a, 4b), issuing office (4c) and categories (field 9). Italian cards print dates as DD/MM/YYYY; the API returns them as YYYY-MM-DD. Send a JPG, PNG, WebP or PDF as Base64 JSON or as a multipart upload; there is no SDK to embed in your app, although official Python and Node.js SDKs are available. Step-by-step code is in the Python guide. Usage is billed per successful scan with pay-as-you-go pricing.

Where Teams Use It in Italy

Integration & AI Prompts

Install the official SDK and pass a photo of the licence. Full request and response details are in the driver license API reference.

# pip install structocr
import os
from structocr import StructOCR

client = StructOCR(api_key=os.environ["STRUCTOCR_API_KEY"])
result = client.scan_driver_license("licence.jpg")

if result.get("success"):
    data = result["data"]
    print(data["document_number"], data["surname"], data["date_of_expiry"])

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "type": "drivers_license",
    "country_code": "ITA",
    "region": null,
    "document_number": "U1A123456B",
    "personal_number": null,
    "surname": "ROSSI",
    "given_names": "GIULIA",
    "sex": null,
    "date_of_birth": "1987-09-23",
    "place_of_birth": "MILANO (MI)",
    "date_of_issue": "2020-01-15",
    "date_of_expiry": "2030-09-23",
    "date_of_first_issue": null,
    "issuing_authority": "MIT-UCO",
    "address": null,
    "vehicle_class": "AM, B1, B"
  }
}