Visa consultancies and exam coaching centres use SpecShot's engine directly via API instead of cropping photos one at a time in Photoshop.
The API isn’t public yet, and pricing hasn’t been set. Leave your details and you’ll hear first when it opens up.
A consultancy handling visa applications typically receives photographs by email or messaging app, in whatever format the client’s phone produced — frequently HEIC, frequently rotated, almost never the right dimensions. Someone then opens each one, crops it by eye against a printed specification, checks the file size, and sends it back. It takes a few minutes per applicant, it is monotonous, and because the critical measurement is a judgement call, mistakes surface weeks later when an application is returned.
The cost of an error is not the reprocessing time. It is the appointment the client has to rebook and the confidence they lose in the firm that handled it.
The API is still in development, but the measurement engine behind it is already live and free to use in the browser — the same crown detection, the same compliance re-check on the finished file. For firms handling a handful of applicants a day, that is often enough on its own, with no waiting list and nothing to integrate. Start from the document specifications and open the tool from the specification you need.
Because the processing happens inside the browser, client photographs never reach a server — which for a firm handling other people’s identity documents is usually the part that matters most to its own data-protection obligations.
To be clear about what exists: the browser tool is live and working now, and the API described on this page is not yet available to anyone. The specification library currently covers the documents verified against their official sources, and grows as each new one is confirmed rather than in bulk. If you need a specific document covered, saying so through the contact page genuinely influences what gets verified next.