International Student Admissions Passport OCR

The Requirement

Universities collect passport details from international applicants for admissions, visa sponsorship, and enrolment records. Admissions teams handle large application waves and copy passport data from uploaded scans.

Capture Once, Confirm, Then Report

Extract passport fields from the applicant’s upload, match them with the application, and flag expiry dates that fall before the course ends. The passport OCR API returns structured JSON, so the same record can feed your forms, reports, and audit trail. Sponsorship and immigration duties remain with the institution’s compliance team.

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("surname:", data.get("surname"))
    print("given_names:", data.get("given_names"))
    print("passport_number:", data.get("passport_number"))
    print("date_of_expiry:", data.get("date_of_expiry"))
else:
    print("Retake or review:", response.json().get("error"))

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "surname": "SAMPLE",
    "given_names": "SAMPLE",
    "passport_number": "SAMPLE",
    "date_of_expiry": "1990-01-01"
  }
}