Introduction
This API is developed to enable enhancement of the security of online payment by assessing the authenticity of credit cards.
The program can assess various characteristics of credit cards from image data provided by a user. The card information captured during an online transaction can be further compared against the same characteristics available in a card database indexed by card issuer, or compared against those captured during previous transactions to verify that the credit card matches the card used in previous transactions.
It is based on image processing techniques to automatically extract and decode the information in a credit card. It will output the following:
• Credit card number
• Type of credit card (i.e., Visa, MasterCard, American Express, etc)
• Card holder name
• Valid from
• Valid to
• Credit card issuer