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Vision & OCR

Eyes for documents, IDs and the field.

Most vision models fall apart on African documents and field conditions. We fine-tune and distil models specifically for local IDs, rural imagery and low-bandwidth capture — and ship them with the pre-processing pipelines that actually matter.

99%+

Field accuracy on EAC ID cards

50 ms

On-device inference (ONNX)

20M+

Documents in training archive

Faster than manual keying

What we ship

Capabilities

Computer vision and OCR for African ID cards, handwritten forms, plates, agriculture imagery and scanned legacy archives — robust to low-light and low-bandwidth.

  • 01

    ID, passport & driver licence OCR

    East African ID card templates — Tanzania NIDA, Kenya Huduma Namba, Uganda NIN — extracted with 99%+ field accuracy on real-world captures.

  • 02

    Handwritten Swahili form extraction

    Land titles, clinic ledgers and tax forms digitized with layout-aware OCR trained on decades of government archives.

  • 03

    Plate recognition & toll automation

    East African plate formats — including partial, dirty and angled plates — recognized at speed with on-device ONNX models.

  • 04

    Agri & remote-sensing image models

    Crop health, flood mapping and land-use classification trained on local satellite and drone imagery for the East African climate zone.

Outcomes

  • Automate document-heavy back-office work
  • Digitize decades of paper archives
  • Real-time recognition in the field and on the road

Tech we use

PyTorchPaddleOCRYOLOOpenCVONNX Runtime

In the field

  • 1

    KYC for digital lenders

    ID extraction and liveness check in under 4 seconds — fully on-device, no PII leaves the phone.

  • 2

    Land registry digitization

    30 years of handwritten Tanzanian land titles digitized and indexed in 6 months.

  • 3

    Toll-plaza automation

    Plate recognition at 140 km/h on East African regional highways — reducing lane dwell time by 80%.

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How we deliver

Our delivery process

Every engagement follows the same rigorous four-stage approach — so you know exactly what to expect, and when.

  1. Step01

    Document taxonomy

    We catalogue every form type, ID layout and handwriting style in scope — the model is only as good as its training distribution.

  2. Step02

    Synthetic augmentation

    Low-light, motion blur, ink fade and scan artifacts are synthesized to make the model robust to field conditions.

  3. Step03

    Post-OCR validation

    Regex, checksum and cross-field validators catch extraction errors before they reach your database.

  4. Step04

    Edge deployment

    ONNX-quantized models for on-device inference — no cloud dependency for field agents with intermittent connectivity.

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Build vision & ocr for your product

Tell us about your use case — we'll respond within one business day with a proposal scoped to your context.