Does Photo Collect change the face in the photo?
No. Photo Collect checks the photo, aligns it, crops it, and replaces the background — the face stays unchanged. Generative AI that invents details or smooths features is not used. The photo shows the person exactly as they stood in front of the camera.
Photo Collect's AI has three tasks: it checks every photo with over 35 automatic checks against ICAO 9303 and ISO/IEC 19794-5, it centers, rotates, and crops the image to the defined format, and it replaces the background. None of these processing steps changes facial features, skin, or proportions.
That is what matters when people are to be identified by their photo: on the employee ID card, at access control, or in the directory. For official ID documents, ICAO and ISO require an unaltered likeness; for badges the same applies for security reasons.
Learn more: Are the images edited with generative AI? and in the blog Image Enhancement with AI—What's Allowed?