Thailand TM30 Foreign Guest Reporting with Passport OCR

The Requirement

Thailand’s TM30 notification requires the owner or manager of a residence to report foreign nationals staying there to immigration. Hosts re-type passport data from photos sent over chat apps, which delays reports and introduces errors in names and numbers.

Capture Once, Confirm, Then Report

Extract passport fields from the guest’s photo, review them, and use the structured data to complete the TM30 report. The passport OCR API returns structured JSON, so the same record can feed your forms, reports, and audit trail. Check the current TM30 process and deadlines with Thai Immigration.

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("nationality:", data.get("nationality"))
    print("date_of_birth:", data.get("date_of_birth"))
    print("date_of_expiry:", data.get("date_of_expiry"))
else:
    print("Retake or review:", response.json().get("error"))

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "passport_number": "SAMPLE",
    "nationality": "SAMPLE",
    "date_of_birth": "1990-01-01",
    "date_of_expiry": "1990-01-01"
  }
}