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AI-Assisted Vaccination Proof Scanning at the Canadian Border

Accountable
Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)
Functional Modes
Sensing (Perceptive AI)
Human decides
Purpose
Border & Immigration
Input Dataset
Biometric Identifiable data
Algorithm or Model
Computer Vision
Output Dataset
A recommendation or prediction Anonymized data

ArriveCAN uses Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to automatically read travellers' proof of vaccination documents when they cross into Canada. The system does not make binding entry decisions — a border services officer makes the final call. If the system cannot read a document, the officer inspects it manually.

Sources for this disclosure

This disclosure was drafted with AI assistance.

Schema: ai@2026-05-06-beta

Government of Canada – DTPR AI Register