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As a part of work for the Japanese dating app, HireUkraine had to implement the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for ID’s to ensure the app users are of legitimate age

OCR of ID’s for a Japanese dating app

As a part of work for the Japanese dating app, HireUkraine had to implement the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for ID’s to ensure the app users are of legitimate age. The problem here was that Japanese documents are issued in hieroglyphs and are scarcely recognizable by standard OCR algorithms. In addition, personal IDs are not the type of photos to…