node-validate-india

Module to validate and retrieve Indian mobile numbers, Aadhaar, PAN, GST, etc.

Installation

npm install validate-india --save

Validations

Below are the list of currently supported documents:

• Aadhaar
• Mobile Number
• PAN
• GST
• Bank IFSC
• ESIC
• UAN

Retrieval

Below are the list of current supported documents from which data can be retrieved from an image:

• Aadhaar
• PAN

Data from image is extracted using the Google's Vision API, hence, to use this feature you must have a Google Developers account and the environment variable GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS should be set to point to the file path of the JSON file that contains your service account key. For more details refer the link: Google Documentation

Usage

Javascript

Below is an example of simple validation

var pan = require('validate-india').pan;

if (pan.isValid('BMEQ0056N')) {
    console.log('Valid PAN provided');
} else {
    console.log('Invalid PAN provided');
}

Below is an example of retrieval of PAN number using OCR

var pan = require('validate-india').pan;

pan.extractFromImage('[ImageURL]').then(res => console.log('PAN Number:', res));

Typescript

Below is an example of simple validation

import { pan } from 'validate-india';

f (pan.isValid('BMEQ0056N')) {
    console.log('Valid PAN provided');
} else {
    console.log('Invalid PAN provided');
}

Below is an example of retrieval of PAN number using OCR

import { pan } from 'validate-india';

const value = await pan.extractFromImage('[ImageURL]');
console.log('PAN Number:', value);

To-Do List

• [ ] Extract Full Name, Father's Name and Date of Birth from PAN using OCR.
• [ ] Extract Full Name, Date of Birth and Gender from Aadhaar Image using OCR.