Exponential Growth Of Fake ID Cards Generation Leads To Increased Tendency Of Forgery With Severe Security And Privacy Threats. University ID Cards Are Used To Authenticate Actual Employees And Students Of The University. Manual Examination Of ID Cards Is A Laborious Activity, Therefore, In This Paper, We Propose An Effective Automated Method For Employee/student Authentication Based On Analyzing The Cards. Additionally, Our Method Also Identifies The Department Of Concerned Employee/student. For This Purpose, We Employ Different Image Enhancement And Morphological Operators To Improve The Appearance Of Input Image Better Suitable For Recognition. More Specifically, We Employ Median Filtering To Remove Noise From The Given Input Image.