Driving licences

Driving licences are uploaded through the documents endpoint which details file types and size limitations.

Extracted data

These are the extracted fields of a driving licence.

Driving licence holder

Extracted information on the holder of the driving licence include:

Field	Description
Full Name	Full name found on the driving licence
First name	First name of the licence holder
Middle name	Middle name(s) of the licence holder, if any
Last name	Last name of the licence holder
Full Address	Combined address found on the driving licence. Individual parts are split out below
Date of birth	Date of birth of the licence holder
Address1	House Number
Address2	House Name
Address3	Flat, unit, or apartment identifier if applicable
Address4	Street name or road
Address5	Smaller locality or village if applicable
Address6	City or Town name
Address7	County or region name
Postcode	Post code
Country	ISO 2 letter country code

Driving licence information

Extracted information on the passport itself

• Issue date
• Expiry date
• Licence number
• Issuing authority
• Vehicle categories

Example extraction

An example extraction followed by the driving licence image it was extracted from.

{
    "fullName": "SARAH MEREDYTH",
    "firstName": "SARAH",
    "lastName": "MEREDYTH",
    "dateOfBirth": "1964-07-05T00:00:00",
    "fullAddress": "122, BURNS CRESCENT, EDINBURGH, EH1 9GP, GB",
    "address1": "122",
    "address4": "BURNS CRESCENT",
    "address6": "EDINBURGH",
    "postCode": "EH1 9GP",
    "country": "GB",
    "issueDate": "2007-05-11T00:00:00",
    "expiryDate": "2017-05-10T00:00:00",
    "licenceNumber": "MORGA657054SM9IJ",
    "issuingAuthority": "DVLA",
    "vehicleCategories": [
        {
            "category": "B"
        },
        {
            "category": "BE"
        },
        {
            "category": "B1"
        },
        {
            "category": "C1"
        },
        {
            "category": "D1"
        },
        {
            "category": "f"
        },
        {
            "category": "k"
        },
        {
            "category": "I"
        },
        {
            "category": "n"
        },
        {
            "category": "p"
        }
    ]
}