kareng/document-reader

A Laravel package for extracting MRZ data from passport PDFs using Tesseract OCR

v1.0.0 2025-10-21 08:12 UTC

Requires

• laravel/framework: ^10.0
• spatie/pdf-to-image: ^2.0
• symfony/process: ^6.0

MIT

• KarenG

README

A Laravel package for extracting MRZ (Machine Readable Zone) data from passport PDFs using Tesseract OCR. Effortlessly extract passport information from PDFs in a few lines of code.

Installation

Install the package via Composer:

  composer require kareng/document-reader

Usage

use Kareng\DocumentReader\DocumentReaderService;

$reader = new DocumentReaderService();

$data = $reader->extractMrzFromPdf($pathToPdf);

Example of returned data:

P<UTOERIKSSON<<ANNA<MARIA<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
L898902C36UTO7408122F1204159ZE184226B<<<<<10

Requirements

PHP 8.0+

Laravel 10+

Tesseract OCR installed on your system

PDF must contain a clear image of the MRZ section