Qatar ID (QID): reading the card and its 11-digit number

What is on the card

The Qatar ID card shows the holder’s name in Arabic and English, the 11-digit ID number, nationality, date of birth, expiry date and, on many cards, occupation. Labels are bilingual.

The 11-digit number

The Ministry of Interior does not publish a specification, but numbers are commonly observed to follow this pattern:

C YY NNN SSSSS

C      century of birth (2 = 1900s, 3 = 2000s)
YY     last two digits of the birth year
NNN    three-digit nationality code (e.g. 634 = Qatar, 356 = India)
SSSSS  serial number

Treat this as a useful sanity check in your own system, not as a rule the number must satisfy.

How Mahad OCR reads it

Upload the front of the card (and the back where you need its data). Mahad OCR returns full_name, the Arabic name where printed, document_number, nationality, date_of_birth and expiry_date. Each field is marked ✓ confirmed or ⚠ check it, with the evidence behind it; disputed, unreadable or missing fields go to human review.

Arabic and English names are returned as printed; transliteration between them is not performed. The number is read as printed and is not checked against any government register.