Signal Descriptions

Intellicheck Capture API

The /start API allows you to choose Signals for ID verification. For example, you may subscribe to selfie, idcheck, and kyc. However, you may not want to use all of these signals for every circumstance. In that case, you can specify just one or two in the /start signals parameter.

The following table describes each of the available signals.

Signal	Description
idcheck	Barcode analysis on North American driver licenses, including real IDs, and extended IDs.
kyc	Watchlists background check. This provides watchlists and sanctions screening based on a tiered approach. Watchlists include Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC), sanctions, regulatory, criminal, politically exposed person (PEP), head of international organization (HIO), and high-risk business (HRB).
ocr_match	Compare OCR scan to barcode or MRZ data.
ocr_scan	OCR scan on passport books, passport cards, and other forms of identification.
selfie	Facial matching and liveness.
criminal_background	Criminal background check.

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Your company must subscribe to signals. Contact Intellicheck Support for subscription assistance.

Signal Selection

To selectively apply signals in the /start endpoint, you use the signals parameter in the request body. If you do not provide these parameters, all data for signals to which your company account is subscribed will be returned.

For example, the following /start private_data request body could be used to obtain watchlists (kyc) and (ocr_scan) results for a passport:

JSON

{  
  "private_data": {
    "document_type": "passport",
    "signals": [  
      "kyc",  
      "ocr_scan"  
    ],      
  }  
}

To additionally obtain the results of a criminal background check, (criminal_background), the /start private_data request body might look like this:

JSON

{  
  "private_data": {
    "document_type": "passport",
    "signals": [  
      "kyc",  
      "ocr_scan",
      "criminal_background"
    ],      
  }  
}