{"id":20620,"date":"2021-07-08T06:58:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T13:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/?p=20620"},"modified":"2021-07-13T11:19:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T18:19:05","slug":"azure-form-recognizer-now-processes-ids-in-azure-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/azure-form-recognizer-now-processes-ids-in-azure-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Azure Form Recognizer now processes IDs in Azure Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/cognitive-services\/form-recognizer\/overview?tabs=v2-1\">Azure Form Recognizer<\/a> can analyze and extract information from government-issued identification documents (IDs) using its <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/cognitive-services\/form-recognizer\/concept-identification-cards\">prebuilt IDs<\/a> model now available in Azure Government to help reduce complexities and errors that come with manually extracting data from various ID types and formats.<\/p>\n<p>With identification documents widely used in government processes, the new prebuilt IDs model combines our powerful <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/cognitive-services\/computer-vision\/overview-ocr\">Optical Character Recognition<\/a> (OCR) capabilities with ID recognition capabilities to extract key information from worldwide passports and US driver&#8217;s licenses (all 50 states and DC), such as first name, last name, date of birth, document number, and more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key uses for Form Recognizer prebuilt IDs:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Digital onboarding<\/strong> \u2013 End users can use a mobile application to scan their IDs and onboard to various services. Remote customer verification is aided by IDs data extraction.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Validation and IDs matching <\/strong>\u2013 End users can fill out an application and attach images of IDs. Pre-built IDs enable a bank to verify the information matches with data on hand.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Forms pre-population <\/strong>\u2013 As part of an insurance claim process, end users submit their IDs and fields are pre-populated in online documents, saving time in the process.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How to get started with Form Recognizer prebuilt IDs:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ms.portal.azure.com\/#create\/Microsoft.CognitiveServicesFormRecognizer\">Create a Form Recognizer resource<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/global-infrastructure\/government\/\">Azure Government portal<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Follow the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/cognitive-services\/form-recognizer\/quickstarts\/get-started-with-form-recognizer#analyze-using-a-prebuilt-model-invoices-receipts-ids-\">QuickStart<\/a> guides to analyze using a prebuilt IDs model<\/li>\n<li>Try Form Recognizer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/cognitive-services\/form-recognizer\/quickstarts\/client-library?tabs=windows&amp;pivots=programming-language-csharp\">client library <\/a>or explore our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/form-recognizer\/api\">reference REST API<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Understand <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/cognitive-services\/form-recognizer\/concept-identification-cards\">IDs concept<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Additional resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/cognitive-services\/form-recognizer\/\">Azure Form Recognizer documentation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/techcommunity.microsoft.com\/t5\/azure-ai\/form-recognizer-now-reads-more-languages-processes-ids-and\/ba-p\/2179428\">Tech Community blog<\/a> on\u00a0language expansion, table enhancement and new prebuilt capabilities in Form Recognizer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Form Recognizer can analyze and extract information from government-issued identification documents (IDs) using its prebuilt IDs model to help reduce the time, complexities and errors that come with manually extracting data from various ID types and formats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65645,"featured_media":20621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[75,95,218,3448],"class_list":["post-20620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-azuregov","tag-azure","tag-azure-government","tag-data","tag-form-recognizer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Form Recognizer can analyze and extract information from government-issued identification documents (IDs) using its prebuilt IDs model to help reduce the time, complexities and errors that come with manually extracting data from various ID types and formats.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}