PassportReader
PassportReader provides a developer API for verifying government-issued identity documents, including physical passports, ID cards, and digital wallet credentials. The platform reads NFC chips and validates cryptographic signatures against issuer certificate chains to confirm authenticity, with optional face matching and liveness detection for higher assurance. Pricing starts at $0.10 per identity verification with free build and test access.
- Regulatory & Compliance Technology
- Developer Tools
- Cybersecurity
- Financial Technology
- Software Only
- Artificial Intelligence
Funding
Founders
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Product
Problem
Traditional identity verification methods rely on manual document inspection, which is slow, error-prone, and susceptible to fraud. Digital identity documents require cryptographic verification to confirm authenticity, but building this infrastructure in-house is complex and time-consuming for developers.
Solution
PassportReader provides a developer API for verifying government-issued identity documents, including passports, ID cards, and digital wallet credentials. The platform reads NFC chips and digital wallet credentials, then validates cryptographic signatures against the issuer's certificate chain to confirm the data is genuine and protected against tampering, cloning, and replay. It offers a unified flow that accepts all three document types with just a few lines of code, enabling instant verification. Optional face matching and liveness detection can be added as a second factor for higher-assurance use cases, and one-to-many face matching helps detect duplicate accounts and identity fraud.
Target Audience
Primary customers are identity teams in fintech, banking, government, workforce management, travel, marketplaces, and age-gated commerce that need high-assurance identity verification in their existing flows.
Features
- Reads NFC chips from physical passports and ID cards plus digital wallet credentials via a single API
- Verifies cryptographic signatures against issuer certificate chains to detect tampering, cloning, and replay attacks
- Optional real-time face matching and liveness detection for multi-factor assurance
- One-to-many face matching to recognize returning users, detect duplicate accounts, and uncover identity fraud
- Unified session-based API flow supporting all document types with minimal integration code
- Verification results delivered in real time, including document number, expiry date, and issuer information
- Interactive playground for testing the verification flow and viewing API responses in real time