How does this fit with FinHub's other OCR APIs?

Document Identification typically runs first to detect the document type, then routes the upload to the matching specialized API — such as PAN OCR or Cheque OCR — for structured field extraction.

What happens if a document can't be classified?

The API returns an unsupported/ambiguous flag with a low confidence score so your flow can prompt the customer to re-upload or select the type manually.

Document Identification API for BFSI

Name: FinHub Document Identification API
Brand: FinHub by Habilelabs

Document Intelligence · Classification

Automatically detect what kind of document was just uploaded — PAN, Aadhaar, passport, cheque and more — before routing it to the right extraction or verification flow.

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api · POST /v1/kyc/verify

POST /v1/kyc/verify

Authorization: Bearer sk_live_••••

{ "pan": "XXXXX1234F", "consent_artifact": "ca_9f2c…" }

Overview

What the Document Identification API does

FinHub's Document Identification API classifies an uploaded image or PDF into its document type, so onboarding and back-office pipelines can route each upload to the correct OCR or verification API without asking the customer to self-select. It returns a confidence-scored classification and flags ambiguous or unsupported documents, with consent capture and a tamper-evident audit log on every call.

Inputs

Document image or PDF
Candidate document types
Consent artifact ID

Returns

Detected document type
Classification confidence score
Side detection (front/back, where applicable)
Unsupported/ambiguous flag

POST /v1/ocr/document-identification

How it works

Three steps to a verified result

Upload the document

Send any document image or PDF with a consent artifact over a single authenticated call — no manual type selection needed.

We classify the document

FinHub's classification models identify the document type — PAN, Aadhaar, passport, cheque and more — and score their confidence.

Get a routing decision

Receive the detected type and confidence score in real time, ready to route the document to the matching OCR or verification API — sealed to your audit trail.

Use cases

Where teams use Document Identification

Auto-routing uploads in KYC and onboarding flows
Sorting mixed document batches for back-office processing
Reducing manual document-type selection errors
Pre-classification step ahead of specialized OCR APIs

FAQ

Document Identification API — FAQs

Common questions about FinHub's Document Identification API.

It identifies common Indian identity and financial documents such as PAN, Aadhaar, passport and cheques, and flags documents it can't confidently classify.

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