Thai National ID Card OCR

Reads the front of a Thai national ID card into its number, names, address and dates, and the back into its laser code, with a confidence per field.

POST/v3/store/ekyc/thai-national-id-card/front

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• Price1.25 ICper page
• Measured98.0%
• Capacity5,000 cards/hour
• Served24.1Mcalls

• v3.6.0-20260824
• Updated 24 Aug 2026
• Active
• Benchmark paper (PDF)

Input

OutputPOST /v3/store/ekyc/thai-national-id-card/front

id_number

3411700830334

th_name

นาง บุญยัง โลเปช

en_name

Mrs. Bunyang Lopez

en_dob

22 Mar. 1957

address

33/349 หมู่ที่ 7 ต.หนองปรือ อ.บางละมุง จ.ชลบุรี

province

ชลบุรี

detection_score

0.979

Every field, under ResponseOther endpoints: /back see Request

Request

curl -X POST https://api.iapp.co.th/v3/store/ekyc/thai-national-id-card/front \
  -H "apikey: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -F "file=@idcard.jpg"

Response

200OK. The fields are explained under Response.

{
    "id_number": "3411700830334",
    "th_name": "นาง บุญยัง โลเปช",
    "en_name": "Mrs. Bunyang Lopez",
    "en_dob": "22 Mar. 1957",
    "address": "33/349 หมู่ที่ 7 ต.หนองปรือ อ.บางละมุง จ.ชลบุรี",
    "province": "ชลบุรี",
    "detection_score": 0.979
}

Request

multipart/form-data, one face of one card per request. For a photographed photocopy, use Photographed Thai National ID Card With Signature Detection.

Headers

apikeystringrequired

Your API key, created under API Keys in the control panel.

Body

filefilerequired

The card. JPEG, PNG, HEIC, HEIF or PDF, up to 10 MB; the card at least 600 × 400 px in the image, 1,000 × 630 or more recommended.

fieldsstring

A comma-separated subset of the response fields. All are returned if omitted. Front only.

optionsstring

Comma-separated. get_bbox adds each field's box as [x1, y1, x2, y2] with a score; get_image adds each field's crop as Base64; get_original adds the values before auto-correction; not_crop_card and not_rotate_card skip the cropping and the rotation; id_check rejects an ID number that fails its check digit; gray_check rejects a black-and-white image.

Endpoint	Returns	Price
/v3/store/ekyc/thai-national-id-card/front	Every front-side field	1.25 IC per page
/v3/store/ekyc/thai-national-id-card/back	The laser code	0.75 IC per page

The legacy paths /thai-national-id-card/v3.5/front and /thai-national-id-card/v3.5.1/back answer at the same prices.

Response

The front, as in the panel:

id_numberid_number_status

The 13-digit number and whether it was found

th_initth_fnameth_lnameth_nameen_initen_fnameen_lnameen_name

Title, given name, surname and full name, in Thai and in English

th_dobth_issueth_expireen_doben_issueen_expire

Birth, issue and expiry dates, as printed in each language

addresshouse_novillage_novillagealleylaneroadsub_districtdistrictprovincepostal_code

The address as printed and its parts; the postal code is looked up

genderreligion

As printed; religion is blank when the card omits it

face

The photograph, Base64 JPEG

confidence

0 to 1 per field

detection_scoreerror_messageprocess_timerequest_id

The card detection score, an error if any, seconds

The back returns back_number, the 12-character laser code, with detection_score and process_time.

Status codes

Code	Meaning
420, 430	No ID card in the image (front, back)
421, 431	Unsupported or corrupted image
422, 432	The image's dimensions are outside the limits
424	The ID number has 13 digits but fails its check digit, with id_check
425	The ID number has fewer than 13 digits, with id_check
426, 436	A black-and-white image, with gray_check
434	No laser code found on the back
435	The laser code has fewer than 12 characters, with id_check
413	The file is too large
427, 428	Processing or queue timeout
461	No file attached
560	The server is busy; retry
563	The image could not be processed

Details

Measured

Against human-verified ground truth: 60 real cards, 1,380 field observations. The set is private.

Measure	Result
ID number	100%
Surname in English, titles, gender, religion	100%
Sub-district, district, postal code, province, dates	100%
Full address	98.3%
Full name in Thai	93.3%
All fields	98.0%
Median time	1.4 s per card, front; 1.3 s, back
Sustained throughput	5,000 cards per hour, production, August 2026

Thai full names fell from 96.7% to 93.3% with the August 2026 engine: if you match on the Thai name rather than the number or the address, check its confidence. Method, per-field results and a comparison with a leading cloud OCR service: the benchmark paper (PDF).

Limits

• Capture at 300 dpi or more; 600 dpi and a file under 5 MB are recommended.
• Check detection_score, and validate the ID number's format on your side.

Data handling

Images are processed in memory and not kept after the response. The service is GDPR and PDPA compliant. For an on-premise deployment, in which no card leaves your network, contact us.

Changelog

Version	Date	Changes
v3.6.0-20260824	24 Aug 2026	English dates (en_dob, en_issue, en_expire) now match the card's print: abbreviated months carry a dot (23 Apr. 1997) and May, printed in full, has none; accept the dotted form when parsing.
v3.5.3-20260824	24 Aug 2026	New engine: field-level accuracy 97.8% to 98.0%, largest gains on addresses, province and expiry dates; on-premise deployment.
3.5	Nov 2022	New OCR engine, faster; characters correct 98.13%.
3.4	Jul 2022	Thai military ranks; 93.25%.
3.0	Feb 2021	Accuracy 91.75%.
2.0	Feb 2020	The back side; 85%.
1.0	Nov 2019	First release; 76%.