The Misfora Blog
Product updates, feature releases and engineering notes from the team building Misfora — automated guest registration and document OCR for hotels, rentals and travel platforms.
I Measured Hotel Check-In at Two Hotels: Where Does the Time Go?
Two minutes at one hotel, four at the other — including about 1 minute 40 seconds of typing passport details by hand. What a fast check-in hides, and where document automation can and cannot help.
Read the article →ATF Antalya 2026: What We Learned About Hotel Document Scanning and Guest Registration
What we heard at the Antalya Tourism Fair: one PMS handles around 10,000 guest document scans a day, while others still rely on desktop scanners — and many had never seen a passport scanned with a phone in a browser.
Read the article →Inside Misfora's Document Capture Engine: How Our Web Scanner Works
How the browser scanner decides when a camera frame is good enough for OCR: checks every ~150 ms, stability windows, best-frame selection, the phones we tested on — and a real scan broken down from the logs, with its limits.
Read the article →Why Good Document Capture Matters for OCR Accuracy
An OCR (optical character recognition) engine doesn't see a passport — it sees pixels. What we learned building a browser document scanner: blur, glare and framing, why one frame isn't enough, real-time feedback, and testing on cheap phone cameras.
Read the article →Belgian eID Card MRZ: TD1 Format and 12-Digit Document Number
The Belgian eID document number is 12 digits long, but the TD1 MRZ only reserves 9 characters for it. Here's where the rest is stored, why it's a country-specific extension rather than a broken document — and why it still trips up TD1 MRZ parsers.
Read the article →How Blur Affects Passport OCR: Testing OCR Accuracy on Blurry Passport Images
We blurred the same passport image 14 times and ran every version through the same OCR pipeline — comparing the human-readable VIZ fields against the machine-readable MRZ. The results were more interesting than expected.
Read the study →This is the same recognition engine behind Misfora — automatically collect guest passport data at check-in and sync it to your PMS or government registration system. See how it works →