Driving licence recognition from a photo: NeuroVision detects the country, the specimen and the side of the document, extracts the full name, dates, number and categories from the front and the back, and checks the image for forgery — in one API response. Russian licences of all specimens on the list and foreign licences; the back side is free of charge.
The model detects the country, the specimen of the form and the side of the document on its own — the user simply photographs the licence. A driving licence can be the main document of the check or the second one, together with the passport in the same session.
A plastic card the size of a bank card under Ministry of Internal Affairs Order No. 365 — the forms issued since 2011, including those after 2014, when subcategories were added. Front and back.
Licences of the 1963, 1993, 1996 and 1999 specimens from the list of recognised documents. They are no longer valid, but they turn up in questionnaire archives and when old contracts are checked.
A table of categories with opening and expiry dates, restrictions and special notes. Under the price matrix the back of the licence is recognised free of charge and is not counted as a separate document.
Licences of other countries from the list of 195+ countries and territories, including licences of individual states, provinces and emirates. The country and the specimen are detected automatically.
International driving permits from the list — for example, those issued in China, Japan and the UAE. They are recognised as a separate document, but in Russia they are valid only together with the national licence.
The list is updated regularly. If the specimen of your country or region is not there, the team will assess whether the model can be trained on it and an update released.
Data is extracted from a driving licence field by field: for each field the service returns the value and the model's confidence level. The field numbers below are as in the specimen description in Ministry of Internal Affairs Order No. 365.
Full name, dates and number — what the questionnaire and the contract need
recognised free of charge — to check authenticity and to match the number
isBackSide in the API responsethe set of fields depends on the country and the specimen
Driving licence OCR works like passport recognition: image → specimen detection → fields → checks → JSON. A person steps in only if the model is unsure about a field or anti-fraud has found signs of forgery. How to connect: REST API and Web SDK.
No scanning of the licence is needed: a phone photo is enough. The Web SDK shows a frame and prompts — remove the glare from the lamination, move closer, turn the card over. Photos and scans in JPEG or PNG are accepted.
The model tells a licence from a passport and an ID card, finds the specimen of the form — from 1963 to the plastic card — and understands which side it sees. The response contains a back-side flag.
The full name in Cyrillic and Latin, dates of birth, issue and expiry, the traffic police unit, series and number, categories. Dates and numbers are brought to a single format.
A photo of a screen, a printout and a photocopy, traces of a graphics editor, altered fields, logical inconsistencies in the dates, an expired document. If the licence and the passport in one session belong to different people, the session gets an error.
Fields with the model's confidence, anti-fraud statuses and errors — in one response. The series, number and issue date go straight to the disqualification check against the database, if it is enabled.
Both sides are recognised: the service returns the issue date as a field and the back as an image with a flag isBackSide. The back side is free under the price matrix
A licence is issued for 10 years. On replacement — at expiry, after a change of surname or after loss — a new date appears in field 4a, and a driver with 15 years of experience looks like a beginner.
Each category in the table on the back has its own date the right was obtained; on replacement it is carried over from the previous licence. The service recognises the back and returns its image, while the category opening date is checked by a moderator or by your rule.
Field 14 may carry a note about experience from a previously issued licence — a moderator checks it too. If the dates on the back and the note differ, the application is worth sending to manual review.
The taxi law requires a category B licence for at least three years. Car sharing, rental and insurers set their own age and experience thresholds. The service returns the dates; you apply the rule.
Recognised against the list: the country and the specimen are detected automatically, and the fields are returned as printed. A foreigner on a temporary trip can drive on a national licence that Russia recognises, and a licence not in the international format is recognised with a certified Russian translation.
It is a translation of the national licence into the languages of the Convention on Road Traffic. In Russia a foreigner may drive on it only together with the national licence. An international permit issued in Russia is valid only abroad. So the scenario should ask for two documents.
A year after obtaining citizenship or a residence permit, foreign licences are invalid, except Belarusian ones. Working as a driver on a foreign licence is not allowed — there are exceptions for citizens of Kyrgyzstan and of countries where Russian is an official language. The service recognises the document; you apply the rule.
A foreign licence cannot be checked against the traffic police database — it is not there. NeuroVision recognises the document and checks the image for forgery; the foreign person is checked against the Ministry of Internal Affairs register of controlled persons and the wanted lists. For the rules for car sharing in detail, see the page on driver checks.
The licence was shot from a monitor or from an app
A user photographs someone else's licence from a screen or sends a screenshot of an electronic licence. The service flags a capture from a screen and a printout — such an image should not be accepted as a photo of the document.
The date, the category or the surname has been changed
People extend the validity, draw in a category, change the surname to match the passport. The service catches traces of an editor, altered and corrected fields, and logical inconsistencies — for example, an issue date later than the expiry date. How document authenticity checking works.
A different photo or scraping on the plastic
A pasted-in photograph, scraping and corrections are visible in a photo of the original. A worn or damaged document is a separate flag: it is better to retake it or check it manually. Signs of forgery and traces of editing — in the article.
The validity in field 4b has run out
The licence looks genuine, but the term is over. The service compares the expiry date and returns an error with a prompt to upload a valid document.
Someone else's licence with your own passport
If documents of different people are uploaded in one session, the session gets a manipulation error. Disqualification cannot be seen in the image — only in the traffic police database, see the block below.
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checks of the document image
Recognition answers the question “what is written on the licence”. Whether it is valid, whether the driver is disqualified and how many fines they have can be seen only in the databases. The series, number and issue date go to the check from the recognised document; the customer does not need to enter anything. All checks and input data — in the catalogue. Checking drivers for car sharing and rental.
Driver's licence
They work from the series, number and issue date of a Russian driving licence; no passport is needed.
Validity, term, disqualification from driving, wanted-document status.
5 ₽ / check
Learn moreUnpaid fines for traffic offences by driving licence number.
5 ₽ / check
Learn moreThe driver's KBM class and coefficient: a discount for accident-free driving or a surcharge for payouts caused by them.
Soon
The person behind the licence
If the session has a passport, checks of the holder are added to the licence checks.
A lost, replaced or invalid passport is visible immediately.
5 ₽ / check
Learn moreUnpaid fines linked to the passport. Complements the check by driving licence.
5 ₽ / check
Learn moreThree wanted-person databases by full name and date of birth.
5 ₽ each
Learn moreFor a foreigner with national licences — by full name, date of birth and the foreigner's document.
5 ₽ / check
Learn moreEntering fields. Manually — the user retypes the full name, number and dates and a moderator checks them against the scan; NeuroVision — fields from both sides in JSON with a confidence level.
Foreign licences. Manually — a moderator has to understand the specimens of other countries; NeuroVision — the country and the specimen are detected automatically.
Experience. Manually — they look at the issue date on the front; NeuroVision — the back is recognised in the same session, and the category opening date is visible on it.
Photos of a screen and printouts. Manually — by eye; NeuroVision — separate flags in the response.
Editing and pasting-in. Manually — by eye; NeuroVision — traces of an editor, altered fields, logical inconsistencies.
Expired licences. Manually — a moderator checks the date; NeuroVision — an error with a prompt to upload a valid document.
Disqualification and validity. The traffic police site — one licence at a time, manually; NeuroVision — 5 ₽ via the API, the number comes from the recognised licence.
Fines. Manually — on the agencies' sites; NeuroVision — by licence and passport, 5 ₽.
Car, accidents, compulsory motor insurance policy. Not checked; the driver's KBM — coming soon.
Recognition does not replace checking the driving licence against the traffic police database: a photo will not show disqualification. So one scenario usually includes both — the licence is recognised and its number goes straight to the check.
Wherever a person is allowed to use a car or is insured from a photo of a document, and the licence data is now retyped by hand.
type — the type of the result docName — the country, type and specimen of the form countryCode — the country code of the document isBackSide — back side or not checks → fraud — statuses of the image checks errors — step errors with a prompt ocr.fields[].title — the field name ocr.fields[].value — the value as in the document ocr.fields[].conf — the model's confidence driverLicense.series, driverLicense.number, driverLicense.issueDate — the input of the check driverLicenseVerification outcome — whether the source was queried: performed, skipped, unavailable POST /v1/kyc/process or the Web SDK. Below are the response fields from the public documentation and an example of values for a licence specimen with fictitious data. A licence can be the main document of the check or the second one to the passport. Document anti-fraud is included in the price, the back side is free, and checks against databases are paid separately. The price of a session falls with volume: 18 ₽ at 10,000 checks a year, 16 ₽ at 50,000. Test access — 1 month.
Calculate the costLicences are recognised by the same integration as the passport: just add a “Driving licence” step to the check scenario.
Test access for 1 month, a personal manager, ticket-based technical support, image storage — free for 3 months, then at the tariff rate, payment per check.
Short definitions of terms from the driving licence form and the API response.
isBackSideLicence recognition is part of the customer verification platform: the same models, infrastructure and security requirements.
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It is the automatic extraction of data from a photo of a licence: the full name, dates, number and categories — into structured JSON. NeuroVision detects the country, specimen and side of the document itself and checks the image for forgery in the same request.
Russian licences of all specimens from the list — from the 1963 form to the plastic card — and foreign national licences from the list of 195+ countries and territories. International permits are recognised for the countries that are on the list.
Yes, the back is recognised and, under the price matrix, is not charged separately. It carries a table of categories with opening dates and restrictions, from which experience is counted.
From the date the right to the category was obtained in field 10 on the back, not from the issue date: licences are replaced every 10 years, and the issue date becomes new. The experience threshold is set by your process or by the insurer.
No. The licence of a disqualified driver looks the same as a valid one. Disqualification is visible only in the traffic police database — it is a separate check for 5 ₽, to which the number from the recognised licence is passed.
Yes. The series, number and issue date from the recognised licence are passed to the check of validity and disqualification. Unpaid fines are checked separately — by licence number and by passport.
It depends on the task. For admission to rental or for a policy, the licence is the main document. If the law requires customer identification, a passport is required: a licence does not replace it. Both documents can be uploaded in one session.
Yes, for the countries on the list. But in Russia it is valid only together with the national licence, and an international permit issued in Russia is not valid for travel within Russia. So the scenario should request both documents.
No, a photo of the licence itself is needed. The service will flag a screenshot of the app as a photo of a screen. The data in Gosuslugi is a display of the register, not a document for recognition.
Retake it without glare and flash so that the whole card fits in the frame. Laminated plastic glares under a lamp — it is better to shoot at an angle to the light. The Web SDK gives this prompt during capture.
In Russia: in the NeuroVision cloud or on your servers when installed in your perimeter. Original images are stored for 3 months free of charge, then at the tariff rate.
From 16 ₽ per check if the licence is the main document; 10 ₽ if the licence is a second document to a passport. The back side is free, the disqualification check is 5 ₽. Test access — 1 month. More in the price matrix.
