Spain SES.Hospedajes Guest Registration with Passport OCR

The Requirement

Spain requires accommodation and vehicle-rental businesses to register traveller details with the Ministry of the Interior’s SES.Hospedajes system. The registry requires many fields per traveller, and typing them from passports slows down check-in.

Capture Once, Confirm, Then Report

Extract passport fields at check-in or pre-arrival, have the guest confirm them, and send the structured record to your registration workflow. The passport OCR API returns structured JSON, so the same record can feed your forms, reports, and audit trail. Confirm the current SES.Hospedajes data requirements with the Ministry of the Interior.

Workflow Applications

Server-Side Integration

Send the passport image from your backend and keep only the fields your process needs.

import base64
import os
import requests

with open("passport.jpg", "rb") as image_file:
    image = base64.b64encode(image_file.read()).decode("ascii")

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.structocr.com/v1/passport",
    headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["STRUCTOCR_API_KEY"]},
    json={"img": image},
    timeout=30,
)

if response.ok:
    data = response.json()["data"]
    print("passport_number:", data.get("passport_number"))
    print("surname:", data.get("surname"))
    print("given_names:", data.get("given_names"))
    print("nationality:", data.get("nationality"))
else:
    print("Retake or review:", response.json().get("error"))

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "passport_number": "SAMPLE",
    "surname": "SAMPLE",
    "given_names": "SAMPLE",
    "nationality": "SAMPLE"
  }
}