ID Card Scanner software speeds up personal data collection
Extract German identity card data in your app with Scanbot’s ID scan solution.

Capture ID Card data instantly with the Scanbot SDK
To automate ID document processing, you need to extract the data as key-value pairs first. With the Scanbot ID Card Scanner, you can read out all relevant personal data from German ID cards in that form. This is ideal for customer verification on the last mile, for digital check-in, or to replace time-consuming identification procedures such as PostIdent. By adding ID scanning to your app, you can cut manual data entry workload and cost now.
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Example use cases for the German ID scanner
Customer onboarding
Simplify customer onboarding by extracting all necessary information from ID cards and pre-filling forms.
Customer verification
Use the ID card scanner to verify a customer’s identity.
Anti-money laundering
Insurances and banks alike need to retain digital copies of their customers’ IDs.
German ID cards - detect, scan & extract
Supported data fields on both sides of the German identity card:
- Document type
- Document ID
- Name, Maiden name
- Given names
- Portrait image
- Date of birth
- Nationality
- Place of birth
- Date of expiry
- Signature
- Color of eyes
- Height
- Date issued
- Issuing Authority
- Address
- Pseudonym
- Access number (CAN)
On-device solution for maximum privacy & usability
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