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Check 01 · the document

A clear photo,
read and checked.

The member photographs their identity document. The camera guides them to a clear, glare-free picture; the service reads the text, checks the machine-readable lines where the document has them, and looks for signs that the image was edited or is a photo of a screen.

2
languages the text reader is set up for: English and Swahili
ICAO
check digits validated on documents with a machine-readable zone
0
government registers consulted
1 person
decides — the checks give a reviewer evidence, not a verdict
What the software does

Capture, read,
check.

In the order the member meets them. Each result is kept for the reviewer.

  1. 01

    Guided capture

    While the camera is open, each frame is checked for the card’s edges, glare and the stripe patterns a screen leaves. The photo is taken when the picture is clear.

    Live feedback
  2. 02

    Read the text

    Tesseract, an open text-recognition engine, reads the fields. When it cannot read them confidently, an AI document-reading service helps.

    Text reading
  3. 03

    Machine-readable lines

    On passports and IDs with a machine-readable zone, the check digits are validated against the ICAO 9303 standard, so a mistyped or altered number shows up.

    Check digits
  4. 04

    Signs of editing

    Error-level analysis and the image’s metadata are used to flag pictures that look edited. Expiry dates are checked. A second opinion on the document comes from the AI reading service.

    Forgery signs
  5. 05

    Back of the national ID

    The faint secondary photo on the back is enhanced and set beside the front photo and the selfie, so the reviewer can compare them by eye.

    For the reviewer
How a result is used

Flags,
not verdicts.

A document check can stop an obviously bad submission — an unreadable photo, an expired document, an image that looks edited. It cannot prove a document is genuine. That judgement belongs to the reviewer.

What the reviewer sees

Images
Front and back of the document, as captured
Text
The fields read, and whether the AI reader helped read them
Check digits
Pass or fail, where the document has a machine-readable zone
Editing signs
The flags raised, and the expiry date
Back photo
The enhanced secondary photo, beside the front photo and selfie
A person approves every member.
No check on this page verifies anyone by itself. The results go to a reviewer for the organisation, who approves or rejects — and that decision, with their name and any note they add, is written to the record. Where a member needs help at a station, a returning officer assists and is named too.
What it does not do

What the document check
does not do.

Look you up in a government register
We do not check documents against IPRS or any government database. Eligibility comes from your organisation’s own roll.
Prove a document is genuine
It raises flags for a person to judge. A good forgery could pass these checks; the reviewer and the selfie stages are there for that reason.
Keep the image away from outside services
When the text is hard to read, and for a second opinion, the image is sent to an AI document-reading service.
Promise an accuracy figure
We publish none for document reading or forgery detection.
The four checks

Ask us how it
handles your roll.

Bring your questions to a briefing — about review queues, officer assists, data protection and what happens when a check is unsure.

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