Question

Is there any software or SDK out there that can take a picture of a driver’s license and recognize it? I’m thinking something like how bar code scanners work where you place the bar code infront of the camera within a specified box and it takes a picture of it.

Answer 1

I don’t know any frameworks which may integrate this process, but have you considered doing it manually in few steps? Whole process may look like this:

1. Add box overlay to UIImagePicker camera view
2. Capture the picture
3. Use some OCR tool on it (for example see this: Getting text from image on ios (image processing))
4. Take license number, decode it and do whatever you want