Verification of death certificates is a necessary process for legal and administrative purposes. It allows to confirm the accuracy and legitimacy of a person's death record, ensuring that it complies with official requirements and standards. This verification is required for legal and financial matters, estate settlement, and many more.

Introduction

Datakeen's OCR service automatically extracts information from death certificates.

Information is captured as structured data and can be extracted as a .json file through our API.

Extracted information
- Full name - Date of death

Setting up the API

The synchronous API model extracts data from death certificates in real time.

📘
API token is required
In order to perform any call, you will need an API token that can be retrieved thanks your API credentials. To learn about authentification, please refer to this page

curl --request POST \
     --url https://api.datakeen.co/api/v1/reco/death-certif \
     --header 'accept: application/json' \
     --header 'content-type: application/json'

npm install api --save

const sdk = require('api')('@datakeen/v1.4.0#ax268r1ilnd0liqe');

sdk.postRecoDeathCertif()
  .then(({ data }) => console.log(data))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.datakeen.co/api/v1/reco/death-certif")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["accept"] = 'application/json'
request["content-type"] = 'application/json'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

composer require guzzlehttp/guzzle

<?php
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('POST', 'https://api.datakeen.co/api/v1/reco/death-certif', [
  'headers' => [
    'accept' => 'application/json',
    'content-type' => 'application/json',
  ],
]);

echo $response->getBody();

python -m pip install requests

import requests

url = "https://api.datakeen.co/api/v1/reco/death-certif"

headers = {
    "accept": "application/json",
    "content-type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

CURL *hnd = curl_easy_init();

curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, stdout);
curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_URL, "https://api.datakeen.co/api/v1/reco/death-certif");

struct curl_slist *headers = NULL;
headers = curl_slist_append(headers, "accept: application/json");
headers = curl_slist_append(headers, "content-type: application/json");
curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, headers);

CURLcode ret = curl_easy_perform(hnd);

dotnet add package RestSharp

using RestSharp;


var options = new RestClientOptions("https://api.datakeen.co/api/v1/reco/death-certif");
var client = new RestClient(options);
var request = new RestRequest("");
request.AddHeader("accept", "application/json");
request.AddHeader("content-type", "application/json");
var response = await client.PostAsync(request);

Console.WriteLine("{0}", response.Content);

CURL *hnd = curl_easy_init();

curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, stdout);
curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_URL, "https://api.datakeen.co/api/v1/reco/death-certif");

struct curl_slist *headers = NULL;
headers = curl_slist_append(headers, "accept: application/json");
headers = curl_slist_append(headers, "content-type: application/json");
curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, headers);

CURLcode ret = curl_easy_perform(hnd);

(require '[clj-http.client :as client])

(client/post "https://api.datakeen.co/api/v1/reco/death-certif" {:content-type :json
                                                       :accept :json})

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.datakeen.co/api/v1/reco/death-certif"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("accept", "application/json")
	req.Header.Add("content-type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

POST /api/v1/reco/death-certif HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json
Host: api.datakeen.co

OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();

Request request = new Request.Builder()
  .url("https://api.datakeen.co/api/v1/reco/death-certif")
  .post(null)
  .addHeader("accept", "application/json")
  .addHeader("content-type", "application/json")
  .build();

Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {accept: 'application/json', 'content-type': 'application/json'}
};

fetch('https://api.datakeen.co/api/v1/reco/death-certif', options)
  .then(response => response.json())
  .then(response => console.log(response))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

val client = OkHttpClient()

val request = Request.Builder()
  .url("https://api.datakeen.co/api/v1/reco/death-certif")
  .post(null)
  .addHeader("accept", "application/json")
  .addHeader("content-type", "application/json")
  .build()

val response = client.newCall(request).execute()

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

NSDictionary *headers = @{ @"accept": @"application/json",
                           @"content-type": @"application/json" };

NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"https://api.datakeen.co/api/v1/reco/death-certif"]
                                                       cachePolicy:NSURLRequestUseProtocolCachePolicy
                                                   timeoutInterval:10.0];
[request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];
[request setAllHTTPHeaderFields:headers];

NSURLSession *session = [NSURLSession sharedSession];
NSURLSessionDataTask *dataTask = [session dataTaskWithRequest:request
                                            completionHandler:^(NSData *data, NSURLResponse *response, NSError *error) {
                                                if (error) {
                                                    NSLog(@"%@", error);
                                                } else {
                                                    NSHTTPURLResponse *httpResponse = (NSHTTPURLResponse *) response;
                                                    NSLog(@"%@", httpResponse);
                                                }
                                            }];
[dataTask resume];

open Cohttp_lwt_unix
open Cohttp
open Lwt

let uri = Uri.of_string "https://api.datakeen.co/api/v1/reco/death-certif" in
let headers = Header.add_list (Header.init ()) [
  ("accept", "application/json");
  ("content-type", "application/json");
] in

Client.call ~headers `POST uri
>>= fun (res, body_stream) ->
  (* Do stuff with the result *)

$headers=@{}
$headers.Add("accept", "application/json")
$headers.Add("content-type", "application/json")
$response = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'https://api.datakeen.co/api/v1/reco/death-certif' -Method POST -Headers $headers

library(httr)

url <- "https://api.datakeen.co/api/v1/reco/death-certif"

response <- VERB("POST", url, content_type("application/json"), accept("application/json"))

content(response, "text")

import Foundation

let headers = [
  "accept": "application/json",
  "content-type": "application/json"
]

let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "https://api.datakeen.co/api/v1/reco/death-certif")! as URL,
                                        cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy,
                                    timeoutInterval: 10.0)
request.httpMethod = "POST"
request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headers

let session = URLSession.shared
let dataTask = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in
  if (error != nil) {
    print(error as Any)
  } else {
    let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse
    print(httpResponse)
  }
})

dataTask.resume()

🚧
Sending multiple documents
Scans, pictures and documents should be sent one by one. If you want to send multiple scans at the same time, please refer to the multi-docs API.

API Response

An instance of the usual response is displayed in the following JSON. You will find the complete information, including extraction and checks. More detailed examples of each extracted field are given below.

{
    "extractedInformation": {
        "dateOfDeath": {
            "confidence": -1,
            "value": "10/05/2005"
        },
        "deceasedFirstName": {
            "confidence": -1,
            "value": "Jacques Paul DANIEL "
        }
    }
}

Extracted information format

For each field, the confidence value indicates the degree of certainty of the extraction with regard to the data on the death certificate.

Date of death

The dateOfDeath (key) on the certificate is returned as a string (value).

dateOfDeath	Value
value	string
confidence	number

"dateOfDeath": {
  "confidence": -1,
  "value": "10/05/2005"
}

Full name

The deceasedFirstName (key) on the certificate is returned as a string (value).

deceasedFirstName	Value
value	string
confidence	number

"deceasedFirstName": {
  "confidence": -1,
  "value": "Jacques Paul DANIEL "
}

Additional information

🚧
Loaded scans must pass prerequisites
To provide a qualitative service and a comprehensive data capture, every picture, scan, or document sent to our API must comply with determined prerequisites which can be found on this page

❗️
API limitations

Maximum size : 5 MB

Maximum number of calls per minute : 10 calls

Death certificate

Introduction

Setting up the API

📘
API token is required

🚧
Sending multiple documents

API Response

Extracted information format

Date of death

Full name

Additional information

🚧
Loaded scans must pass prerequisites

❗️
API limitations

Introduction

Setting up the API

📘API token is required

🚧Sending multiple documents

API Response

Extracted information format

Date of death

Full name

Additional information

🚧Loaded scans must pass prerequisites

❗️API limitations

📘
API token is required

🚧
Sending multiple documents

🚧
Loaded scans must pass prerequisites

❗️
API limitations