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Myanmar ID Card OCR

Updated at: Sep 30, 2021 GMT+08:00

Function

Myanmar ID Card OCR recognizes information on Myanmar-issued national registration cards. For details about the constraints on using this API, see Constraints. For details about how to use this API, see Introduction to OCR.

Figure 1 Myanmar ID Card OCR example

Prerequisites

Before using Myanmar ID Card OCR, you need to apply for the service and complete authentication. For details, see Subscribing to OCR and Authentication.

Before using the service for the first time, you need to enable the service by clicking Subscribe. You only need to subscribe to the service once. If the service is not enabled, an error message with error code "ModelArts.4204" will be displayed when you call the service. Before calling the service, log in to the OCR console and enable the service. Ensure that the region where the service is enabled is the same as that where the service is called.

URI

POST https://{endpoint}/v2/{project_id}/ocr/myanmar-id-card

Table 1 Path parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Description

endpoint

Yes

Domain name or IP address of the server bearing the REST service endpoint. The endpoint varies depending on services in different regions. For more details, see Endpoints.

project_id

Yes

Project ID, which can be obtained from Obtaining a Project ID.

Request Parameters

Table 2 Request header parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

X-Auth-Token

Yes

String

User token

During API authentication using a token, the token is added to requests to obtain permissions for calling the API. The value of X-Subject-Token in the response header is the obtained token.

Content-Type

Yes

String

MIME type of the request body. The value is application/json.
Table 3 Request body parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

image

No. Set either this parameter or url.

String

Base64-encoded image file. The image file has a size limit of 10 MB.

No side of the image can be smaller than 15 or larger than 8,000 pixels. Only images in JPEG, JPG, PNG, BMP, or TIFF format can be recognized.

url

No. Set either this parameter or image.

String

Image URL. Currently, the following URLs are supported:

  • Public network: HTTP/HTTPS URL
  • URL provided by OBS. You need to be authorized to use OBS data, including service authorization, temporary authorization, and anonymous public authorization. For details, see Configuring Access Permissions of OBS.
NOTE:
  • The API response time depends on the image download time. If the image download takes a long time, the API call will fail.
  • Ensure that the storage service where the images to be detected reside is stable and reliable. OBS is recommended for storing image data.

convert_unicode

No

Boolean
  • true: The output will be in the Unicode format.
  • false: The output will be in the zawgyi format.

If this parameter is not specified or does not exist, the output will be in the zawgyi format by default.

return_confidence

No

Boolean

Whether to return the confidence. Value options are as follows:

true: The confidence will be returned.

false: The confidence will not be returned.

If this parameter is not specified, the system does not return the confidence by default. If a non-Boolean value is entered, an error message will be displayed, indicating that the parameter is invalid.

return_portrait_image

No

Boolean

Whether to return the portrait. Value options are as follows:

  • true: The Base64 code of the portrait on the ID card will be returned.
  • false: The Base64 code of the portrait on the ID card will not be returned.

If this parameter is not specified, false is used by default. In this case, the Base64 code of the portrait on the ID card will not be returned.

return_portrait_location

No

Boolean

Whether to return the location of the portrait on the ID card. Value options are as follows:

  • true: The location of the portrait on the ID card will be returned.
  • false: The location of the portrait on the ID card will not be returned.

return_idcard_type

No

Boolean

Whether to return the ID card type. Value options are as follows:

  • true: The ID card type will be returned, indicating that the ID card is the original ID card or copy of the original ID card.
  • false: The ID card type will not be returned.

Response Parameters

Response parameters and status codes vary in different recognition results. They are described as below.

Status code: 200

Table 4 Response parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

result

Object

Calling result of a successful API call

This parameter is not included when the API fails to be called.
Table 5 Response parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

side

String

Front or back of a national registration card. Value options are front and back.

class

String
  • ID card type. Value options are as follows:
  • new_version: new version of ID card
  • old_version: old version of ID card

nrc_id

String

ID number

issue_date

String

Date of issue

name

String

Name

father_name

String

Father's name

birth

String

Date of birth

bloodlines_religion

String

Ethnic group or religion

height

String

Height

blood_group

String

Blood type

card_id

String

National registration card number on the back

nrc_id_back

String

National registration card ID on the back

profession

String

Occupation

address

String

Address

confidence

Object

Confidence information of a related field. The value ranges from 0 to 1.

A higher confidence indicates a higher reliability of the corresponding field identified this time. In the statistical sense, a higher confidence indicates a higher accuracy.

The confidence is calculated using algorithms and is not equal to the accuracy.

portrait_image

String

Base64 code of the portrait

This parameter is available only when return_portrait_image is set to true.

portrait_location

Array of objects

Location of the portrait on the original image

This parameter is available only when return_portrait_location is set to true. The image is displayed in a list. The list contains the two-dimensional coordinates (x,y) of the four vertices in the portrait area. The origin of the coordinates is the upper left corner of the image. The x axis is horizontal, and the y axis is vertical.

idcard_type

String

ID card type. Value options are as follows:

  • normal: original ID card
  • copy: copy of the ID card

This parameter is available only when return_idcard_type is set to true.

Status code: 400

Table 6 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

error_code

String

Error code of a failed API call. For details, see Error Codes.

If error code ModelArts.4204 is displayed, refer to Why Is a Message Stating "ModelArts.4204" Displayed When the OCR API Is Called?

This parameter is not included when the API is successfully called.

error_msg

String

Error message returned when the API fails to be called

This parameter is not included when the API is successfully called.

Request Example

  • The endpoint is the request URL for calling an API. Endpoints vary depending on services and regions. For details, see Endpoints.

    For example, Myanmar ID Card OCR is deployed in the CN-Hong Kong region. The endpoint is ocr.ap-southeast-1.myhuaweicloud.com. The request URL is https://ocr.ap-southeast-1.myhuaweicloud.com/v2/{project_id}/ocr/myanmar-id-card. project_id is the project ID. For details about how to obtain the project ID, see Obtaining a Project ID.

  • For details about how to obtain a token, see Making an API Request.
  • Request example (Method 1: Use the image Base64 string.)
    POST https://{endpoint}/v2/{project_id}/ocr/myanmar-id-card

Request Header:
Content-Type: application/json
X-Auth-Token: MIINRwYJKoZIhvcNAQcCoIINODCCDTQCAQExDTALBglghkgBZQMEAgEwgguVBgkqhkiG...
Request Body: 
{
    "image":"/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAgEASABIAAD/4RFZRXhpZgAATU0AKgAAAAgABwESAAd...",
    "convert_unicode": true,
    "return_confidence": true,
    "return_portrait_image": true,
    "return_portrait_location": true,
    "return_idcard_type": true
}
  • Request example (Method 2: Use the image URL.)
    POST https://{endpoint}/v2/{project_id}/ocr/myanmar-id-card

Request Header:
Content-Type: application/json
X-Auth-Token: MIINRwYJKoZIhvcNAQcCoIINODCCDTQCAQExDTALBglghkgBZQMEAgEwgguVBgkqhkiG...
Request Body: 
{
    "url":"https://BucketName.obs.xxxx.com/ObjectName",
    "convert_unicode": true,
    "return_confidence": true,
    "return_portrait_image": true,
    "return_portrait_location": true,
    "return_idcard_type": true
}
  • Sample code for a Python 3 request (For codes in other languages, refer to the following sample or use OCR SDK.)
    # encoding:utf-8

import requests
import base64

url = "https://{endpoint}/v2/{project_id}/ocr/myanmar-id-card"
token = "Actual token value obtained by the user"
headers = {'Content-Type': 'application/json', 'X-Auth-Token': token}

imagepath = r'./data/myanmar-id-card-demo.png'
with open(imagepath, "rb") as bin_data:
    image_data = bin_data.read()
image_base64 = base64.b64encode(image_data).decode("utf-8")  # Base64 encoding of images.
payload = {"image": image_base64}  # url or image.
response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, json=payload)
print(response.text)

Example Response

Status code: 200

Successful response example (the front)

{
    "result":{
        "side": "front", 
        "nrc_id": "XXXXXXXX", 
        "issue_date": "၂၀.၉.၂၀၁၁", 
        "name": "XXXX", 
        "father_name": "XXX", 
        "birth": "၁၄.၁၀.၁၉၉၁", 
        "bloodlines_religion": "ဗမာ၊ဗုဒ္ဓ", 
        "height": "၅'၅\"", 
        "blood_group": "ဘီ", 
        "class": "new_version", 
        "confidence": {
            "nrc_id": 0.7514, 
            "issue_date": 0.5385, 
            "name": 0.6641, 
            "birth": 0.5216, 
            "bloodlines_religion": 0.9774, 
            "height": 0.7526, 
            "blood_group": 0.7541
        },
        "idcard_type": "normal",
        "portrait_image": "/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAgEASABIABRHFGD...",
        "portrait_location": [
            [106, 178], 
            [369, 181], 
            [366, 448], 
            [108, 445]
        ]  
    }
}

Successful response example (the back)

{
    "result":{
        "side": "back", 
        "card_id": "XXXXXXX", 
        "nrc_id_back": "", 
        "profession": "ကျောင်းသား", 
        "address": "XXXXXXXX", 
        "class": "new_version", 
        "confidence": {
            "card_id": 0.9878, 
            "nrc_id_back": 0.9595, 
            "profession": 0.9995, 
            "address": 0.9299
        },
        "idcard_type": "normal"    
    }
}

Status code: 400

Failure response example

{
    "error_code": "AIS.0103", 
    "error_msg": "The image size does not meet the requirements." 
}

Status Codes

Status Code

Description

200

Success response

400

Failure response

For details about status codes, see Status Codes.

Error Codes

For details about error codes, see Error Codes.

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