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SIH26188SoftwareBlockchain & Cybersecurity

Al-Based Fake Identity & Document Screening System

Ministry of Home Affairs

Ideas submitted
500 / 500
Deadline
30 September 2026
Category
Software
Theme
Blockchain & Cybersecurity

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• Background Common challenges faced at border checkpoints: • Fake passports and visas • Altered photographs • Modified dates of birth • Tampered visa stamps • Identity impersonation • Multiple identities used by the same person Expired or blacklisted travel documents • High passenger volume causing delays Current verification methods rely heavily on human inspection and basic database lookups. • Detailed Description Border checkpoints process thousands of identity documents every day,including passports, visas, national identity cards, permits, and travel authorizations. Manual verification is time-consuming, prone to human error, and often unable to detect sophisticated forgeries, tampering, or identity fraud.Develop an Al-powered document screening platform that automatically analyzes identity and travel documents, detects signs of tampering or forgery, validates information against rules and databases,and generates a risk score to assist border security personnel in making faster and more accurate decisions. • Expected Solution • Module 1: OCR Extraction • Module 2: Document Validation • Module 3: Tampering Detection • Module 4: Face Detection Module 1: OCR Extraction Objective: Automatically extract all relevant information from identity documents.

Inputs

• Passport image • Visa image • National ID image • Driving license • Permit documents Extracted Fields:

Passport

• Name • Passport Number • Nationality • Date of birth • Date of expiry • Gender Visa • Visa Number • Visa Type • Entry Validation • Stay Duration Module 2: Document Validation Objective: Verify whether the extracted information follows official document standards.

Module 3: Tampering Detection (Core AI Innovation)

Objective: Detect digitally or physically altered documents.

Use Cases

• Photo Replacement • Text Manipulation • Stamp Forgery Detection • Image Metadata Analysis Module 4: Face Verification Objective: Ensure document owner matches the presented individual. • Expected Impact • Reduce document verification time from several minutes to a few seconds. • Improve detection of forged and tampered documents. • Standardize screening decisions across checkpoints. • Enable data-driven risk assessment instead of purely manual inspection. • Create a digital trail for investigations and intelligence analysis.

Possible Project Name Al-Based Fake Identity & Document Screening System.

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What a jury will ask about this

  1. 01“Who actually faces this problem today?”

    What works: Naming one real person and what they do instead right now. Reading the statement back is not an answer, they already read it.

  2. 02“This already exists. Why yours?”

    What works: That existing tools are consumer products. Yours is built for the ministry, works offline, in the local language, on official data.

  3. 03“Then why has nobody solved it yet?”

    What works: The real blocker. No connectivity, no incentive, nobody owns the data. You only know this if you read the ministry's own reports.

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