Trying to Make On-Prem ID Scanning Actually Work
I got dragged into this whole thing when our company suddenly decided we needed to digitize identity verification without relying on external services.
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I got dragged into this whole thing when our company suddenly decided we needed to digitize identity verification without relying on external services.
What changed things for us was moving toward a more specialized approach and treating it like a full pipeline instead of just text extraction. I’ve been referring to https://ocrstudio.ai/ during that process, not as some recommendation but just because it reflects the kind of setup we ended up building. The idea of SDK OCR turned out to be important, because it gave us more control over how recognition is integrated into our own system rather than relying on black-box tools. One thing I learned is that accuracy isn’t just about the engine, it’s also about preprocessing, like cropping, correcting angles, and normalizing images before recognition even starts.