US Traffic Ticket OCR
Use state-of-the-art AI technology to process traffic ticket data accurately and efficiently in any US state
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Extract citation essentials
Automatically parse license plate, violation type, fine amount, vehicle make/model, and issuance date.
Detect officer and agency info
Identify the issuing officer, department, and citation number for back-office tracking or escalation.
Works across all US formats
Supports the wide variety of traffic citation layouts used in different cities and states.
Designed for software integration:
Simple REST API integration
Submit tickets as image or PDF, receive clean JSON fields ready for automation.
Handles handwritten and printed fields
Built to read officer-written or machine-generated data accurately.
Works across municipalities
No need to map specific layouts—Mindee adapts to local citation formats out of the box.
Flexible for in-app or backend use
Use it in mobile fleet apps, back-office portals, or API middleware.
Transform your workflow with:
Upload or capture tickets on the go
Fleet drivers or staff upload citation images via app or dashboard.
Parse license, vehicle, and fine data
Mindee pulls key fields in seconds—no manual review needed.
Verify completeness and jurisdiction
Check that the ticket includes all required data for escalation or payment.
Send to the right system
Automatically export results to insurance tools, fleet platforms, or internal tracking software.
Digitize and manage traffic citations with less time and fewer errors:
- Capture scanned or mobile-submitted tickets
- Extract all essential citation data
- Validate ticket source and format
- Route violations to the correct team or database
- Archive for legal, audit, or insurance workflows
- Sync with fleet or customer records
Built for real-world US citations
Mindee’s model is trained on a wide variety of authentic traffic tickets.
Supports multi-state workflows
No need to configure for each state or municipality layout.
Perfect for insurance and fleet tech
Built to power citation management in apps, portals, or claims systems.
Fast setup with full docs and SDKs
Get started quickly with Python, JS, and Postman-ready examples.
Confidence scoring for compliance
Each field includes accuracy signals for validation or human-in-the-loop review.
Compliance and security baked in
SOC 2 Type II, GDPR-ready, and encrypted end-to-end.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about our intelligent document processing solutions.
How can I test the Traffic Ticket OCR API?
Our Traffic Ticket API is free to use and available to any user having an account on our platform.
To test our APIs, you only have to create a free account using this link, and you'll be able to drag and drop Traffic Ticket in the live interface to see the data extracted in real-time and JSON response. A demo page is also available here.
Is Mindee's Traffic Ticket OCR API free to use?
A free plan is available to everyone and allows you to perform 250 Traffic Tickets processing per month for free. No credit card is required.
Above 250 Traffic Ticket per month, the price per receipt processed starts at $0.10 and can decrease to $0.01 per Traffic Ticket depending on the monthly volume. See the pricing page for more information.
Traffic Ticket : What are the supported countries?
What are the supported countries?
Our Traffic Ticket OCR API is based on our computer vision technology that doesn't rely on text to extract the Traffic Ticket data, but only on the image. This removes the language limitations.
The OCR was trained with Traffic Ticket from more than 50 countries and works on Traffic Ticket from all around the world for numeric fields, and all Latin alphabet countries for text ones.
Traffic Ticket : How complicated is it to integrate the API?
How complicated is it to integrate the API?
Mindee's API follows HTTP standards in order to allow any developer to integrate the Traffic Ticket OCR API into their applications easily.
We also offer a set of client libraries in all the main back-end languages, and an open-source UI toolkit that helps create front-end features. You can check out our open-source repository or our API documentation for more details.
Traffic Ticket : What is the OCR accuracy?
What is the OCR accuracy?
Our Traffic Ticket OCR's accuracy is above 90%, with precision above 95% for most of the fields. These performances are computed on a data set including more than 50 countries.
Testing our OCR API is free, all you need is an account. Feel free to drop Traffic Tickets in the live interface to see the OCR performance on your data.
Traffic Ticket : What's the average API response time?
What's the average API response time?
The processing time is around 1.3 seconds per page for pdfs and 0.9 seconds for a Traffic Ticket image.
We often improve this processing time and our target is below 500ms. Our goal is to make sure you can create real-time user experiences in your application.
Traffic Ticket : Does the OCR work on low-quality images?
Does the OCR work on low-quality images?
Yes, the OCR was trained on a lot of Traffic Ticket from a wide variety of layouts and image quality and learned to process the most complex ones.
We also use data augmentation to make sure that no blur or ink stains prevent the OCR from reading the data as long as it's readable.
Do you offer technical support?
We have a Slack community where you can ask your questions and chat with our team.
We don't do the integration in your infrastructure ourselves but we can set up a custom level of support on a per-case basis if needed.