Identity
Identity verification
Confirm the candidate is who they claim to be by validating government identifiers and matching them against the documents and selfie on file.
- Under 30 secondsTurnaround time
- 0Paper documents
- 98%Straight-through processing
Beyond a simple OCR match
Reading a document is not verifying an identity. Papertrail checks the government registry directly, matching face, demographic data, and document status in real time.
Offline XML or OTP consent, matched against UIDAI's response for name, DOB and address.
Live NSDL lookup for status and the name it's registered under.
MRZ decoded and cross-checked against the issuing authority.
Checked against the Election Commission's electoral roll for the declared constituency.
Validated against the state transport record via VAHAN/Sarathi.
Watch each identifier get verified at source
Five registries, five different questions. Pick one to watch that specific lookup run — the identifier going in, the exchange with the source, and the record that comes back.
What a discrepancy looks like — next to what a clean pass looks like
Most cases close like the record on the right. The one on the left is a real failure mode, with the evidence attached exactly as an adjudicator would see it.
Re-photographed document
- Document
- PAN card (photo upload)
- Flagged — recaptured image
- Name on document
- Ravi Kumar
- Ravi Kumar
- PAN status (NSDL)
- —
- Active, individual — verified
- Forensic tamper score
- —
- 62/100 — screen-recapture pattern detected
Escalated
Escalated to manual document review rather than auto-rejected. The candidate completed a live video KYC session and verified the PAN in person through NSDL's OTP consent flow. The case closed clear — the image capture method was the issue, not the document — with one extra day added to TAT.
- Method
- Error-level analysis and moiré/screen-recapture detection run on the uploaded PAN image, cross-checked against the NSDL PAN database for the printed number.
- Source
- NSDL PAN verification API + Papertrail document forensics engine
- Captured
- 18 Aug 2026, 10:42 IST
- Retention
- Original image and forensic overlay retained 7 years for audit; only the flagged crop reaches the adjudicator
Aadhaar, PAN and selfie match — closed automatically
- Document
- Aadhaar + PAN + selfie
- All three cross-matched
- Name across identifiers
- Priya Nair
- Priya Nair — Aadhaar, PAN agree
- Face-match score
- —
- 98.4% against Aadhaar photo
- Forensic tamper score
- —
- Clean — no recompression artefacts
Closed
Closed automatically in under four minutes — every identifier and the live selfie cleared the confidence threshold, so the case never reached an analyst queue.
- Method
- Offline XML plus OTP consent cross-checked against PAN status and a liveness-checked selfie, all clearing the auto-close confidence threshold.
- Source
- UIDAI offline eKYC + NSDL PAN API
- Captured
- 21 Aug 2026, 09:14 IST
- Retention
- Verification result retained per the case's configured retention window; the underlying Aadhaar XML is never stored beyond the masked identifier.
Field by field
Every field below is checked against a named source, not inferred. Open one to see the declared value beside what the source actually returned.
Name match
Checked across every identifier submitted, not just one.
From consent to a routed decision
Three stages, the first two running for every candidate, the third only when something needs a human.
Consent and capture
Candidate consents and submits identifiers plus a live selfie from a mobile browser — no app install.
Cross-check and score
Every identifier is checked against its issuing database and matched against the others and the selfie.
Review and close
Anything below threshold routes to a trained analyst; everything else closes automatically.
TAT by scenario
The turnaround range holds for most candidates. Complexity and specific verification routes are what move it.
Aadhaar offline eKYC, OTP consent given
digitalPAN status via NSDL
digitalDriving licence via VAHAN/Sarathi
digitalPassport issuing-authority cross-check
manualFace-match confidence below threshold
manualIdentity check, answered
PAN is one of five identifiers, not a requirement. Aadhaar plus one other government identifier is enough to close the check — PAN is recommended, not mandatory, unless the role itself requires it for financial reasons.
Yes. Passport, driving licence or voter ID can anchor the check instead. The trade-off is turnaround: Aadhaar's offline XML and OTP route closes in minutes, while passport and voter ID routes involve a manual issuing-authority or registry cross-check.
It doesn't auto-fail. Anything below the confidence threshold routes to a trained analyst who compares the images directly. Most borderline cases are lighting or angle issues, not fraud, and close instantly.
Verification uses the offline XML or OTP-based route — Papertrail never stores the full Aadhaar number, only the masked identifier and the verification result, consistent with UIDAI's offline eKYC guidelines.
That routes to manual review rather than an automatic flag. The analyst requests supporting documentation, such as a marriage certificate, before deciding whether it's a genuine mismatch or an explainable difference.
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