Data privacy issues and fraud due to some loopholes in the system, is a major concern when it comes to handling personal documents for financial sectors. Ensuring security for our Aadhaar number is one of our main concern and top priority. Based on RBI circular of 2019, To Accept Aadhaar card for KYC, Aadhaar masking/ redaction is required. According to IRDAI circular of 2019, the unique Aadhaar card number needs to be masked for various agencies and insurance companies to use the Aadhaar card for KYC.As per UDAI also, Aadhar Masking should be done before storing it to the database/ any storage application.For this extrieve Aadhaar masking SDK or API can be used.
- As per UIDAI , Aadhaar masking refers to covering of the first eight digits of Aadhaar number in physical or digital forms. Aadhaar Masking hides the first 8 digits keeping only the last 4 digits visible of the Aadhaar number.
- UIDAI, RBI,IRDAI has been send different circulares with reference to requirement of Aadhaar masking
- As per the regulations , Aadhaar number should be masked before it is getting stored in Database or any storage application.
- Manually performing this activity is a challenge for operations team.
What is a Aadhaar Masking ?
Aadhaar Masking refers to hiding the first 8 digits of the 12 digit number and keeping visible the last 4 digits. All other demographic details stays visible. Processing of this activity is a tedious task for the operations team without any efficient aids. Extrieve’s Aadhaar Redaction Module provides an easy solution to this challenge, by taking the image file as input and providing the masked file as output. Extrieve’s Aadhaar Redaction API uses Splicer image segmentation and OCR.
Extrieve’s Solution
Extrieve provide API/Tool which can accept input image file and provide masked output file.
It can be integrated as part of document capture process or as backend process.
Extrieve’s Aadhaar redaction module uses splicer image segmentation and OCR. This improves the speed & accuracy of masking compared to other solutions.
Module can be deployed on premise and this avoids upload and download of the Aadhaar images to cloud server.
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