Video Identification Flash Start – Worldwide

The IDV Flash Start Video Identification API service allows you to verify users’ identities, and in particular the authenticity of documents, remotely in a fast, automatic, and cost-effective way.

The service is available 24/7 and supports over 3,000 types of documents from more than 190 countries. Document authenticity verification includes checking the ID date and consistency, detecting potential copies, and verifying all Optical Variable Elements (OVE). It also evaluates the document’s physical aspects, adherence to specific security features, and production method. Examples of checks include reading VIZ and MRZ, document validity, analysis of black-and-white images, verification of holograms, watermarks and ILV, examination of color, plasticity and impressions, as well as checks on embossing, perforations, micro-impressions, and guilloches.

To combat counterfeiting, artificial intelligence analyzes the document’s movement and angle via video, verifying the holographic elements characteristic of authentic documents. The identification process is completed in seconds, providing a detailed analysis of authenticity, data consistency, and verification results: the high accuracy of data extraction minimizes errors and accelerates identity validation.

Based on video verification, the service is twice as fast and effective as traditional photo-based methods and, thanks to continuous learning on thousands of video samples, constantly improves its ability to detect even sophisticated fraud attempts. Only in cases where AI cannot complete the verification does a specialized operator intervene manually, ensuring the procedure is completed within 2 minutes.

With identification APIs, you can deliver legally compliant services and products in reduced timeframes, without requiring the customer’s physical presence at your offices, while drastically reducing the risk of fraud.

Three levels of global video identification are available on Openapi:

The identification platform is available in 19 different languages and is completely “neutral” (no company logos will be displayed).

With the Flash Start mode, users can independently carry out the entire video identification process at any time of the day, without scheduling constraints. 

The identification procedure is mainly based on three steps:

The Flash service, compared to the other two services, does not include liveness detection.

The service is identified by the endpoint https://trust.openapi.com/idv-flash-start

REQUEST EXAMPLE

POST /idv-flash-start

The only mandatory fields to include in the payload when making the request are:

{
  "email": "[email protected]",
  "name": "Mario Openapi",
  "redirectUrl": "https://openapi.com",
  "callback": {
    "url": "https://your-server.site/idv-callback",
    "custom": {
      "orderId": "idv-check-123"
    }
  }
}

It is also possible to set the callback to receive updates when a status change occurs.

RESPONSE EXAMPLE

POST /idv-flash-start

The response will include data on:

{
   "createdAt": "2025-11-19T16:33:12+00:00",
  "updatedAt": "2025-11-19T16:33:12+00:00", 
  "email": "[email protected]",
  "name": "Mario Openapi",
  "redirectUrl": "https://openapi.com",
  "state": "NEW",
  "verificationUrl": "https://openapi.com",
  "status": "pending_redirection",
  "details": "",
  "riskLabels": [],
  "id": "691df14809a1848428063cc4",
  "documents": [],
}

https://trust.openapi.com/idv-flash-start/66a8ed9b82cf2ae627012068

{
   "createdAt": "2025-11-19T16:33:12+00:00",
  "updatedAt": "2025-11-19T16:33:12+00:00", 
  "email": "[email protected]",
  "name": "Mario Openapi",
  "redirectUrl": "https://openapi.com",
  "state": "NEW",
  "verificationUrl": "https://openapi.com",
  "status": "pending_redirection",
  "details": "",
  "riskLabels": [],
  "id": "691df14809a1848428063cc4",
  "documents": 
  {
      "type": "ID",
      "number": "CA12345AA",
      "issuingCountry": "IT",
      "issueDate": "2019-10-30",
      "expiryDate": "2030-08-24",
      "mrz": "XXXXXX"
      "birthDate": "2003-08-24",
      "firstName": "MARIO",
      "lastName": "OPENAPI",
      "fullName": "MARIO OPENAPI"
   }
  ]
}