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Identity document verification flow Identity document verification lets you add a high-assurance recovery step when a user cannot complete their usual authentication path. OwnID hosts the user experience, collects the document verification result, and calls your backend so you can decide whether the recovered account should be restored, escalated, or denied. At a high level, this simple integration consists of just two steps:
  1. Implement /verifyIdDoc on your backend so OwnID can ask your backend to evaluate the verification result against the user account being recovered.
  2. Start the verification from your frontend using the OwnID Web SDK and use the challenge status to decide the next account-recovery action.

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Flow Overview

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Prerequisites

Before you build this flow:
  • Identity document verification capability is enabled — contact support@ownid.com.
  • Your OwnID application ID and shared secret from the OwnID Console.
  • A defined policy for matching a verified document to an account (name, date of birth, etc.).