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Document verification

Verify identity documents from 220+ countries and territories.

Passports, identity cards, driving licences and residence permits: NODE ID reads the document, checks it for fraud and extracts its data, with 99% of verifications completed in under 2 seconds.

How it works

  1. 1

    Capture

    The person photographs the document, or holds a passport's chip to their phone.

  2. 2

    Check

    Security features, tampering, copies and on-screen documents are checked.

  3. 3

    Extract

    The data of the machine-readable and visual zones comes back structured.

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Illustration of an identity document check

Every check a document needs

14,000+ document types

Identity documents from 220+ countries and territories.

Every kind of ID

Passports, identity cards, driving licences and residence permits.

NFC chip reading

The chip of electronic passports read with the person's phone.

Document fraud detection

Forged, copied, altered or on-screen documents detected.

Data extraction

Machine-readable zone (MRZ) and visual zone read automatically.

Under 2 seconds

99% of verifications completed in under 2 seconds.

Integrate in a few calls

Start a verification with one call, a hosted link or an SDK, and receive the result by webhook.

  • Web and mobile SDKsEarly access
  • Hosted verification linkAvailable
  • No-code portalAvailable
  • REST APIEarly access
  • WebhooksEarly access
  • MCP serverEarly access
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RequestIllustration
curl -X POST $NODEID_API/v1/verifications \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $NODEID_KEY" \
  -d '{ "person_id": "per_51d…", "workflow": "id_document" }'
Response
{
  "verification_id": "ver_3b9…",
  "document": { "type": "passport", "country": "FR",
    "mrz": "valid", "chip": "read", "tampering": "none" },
  "result": "approved"
}
Illustrative API request and response.

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