Passport control kiosks, hotel check-in systems, and border verification software all rely on fast, accurate Machine-Readable Zone (MRZ) parsing from travel documents. Building that capability from scratch—reliable OCR, field validation, and live camera integration—is non-trivial. The Dynamsoft Capture Vision SDK exposes a single CaptureVisionRouter.capture() call that handles the full pipeline,...

Building a web-based OCR (Optical Character Recognition) application has never been easier with modern JavaScript libraries. In this comprehensive tutorial, we’ll create a powerful OCR app that can process images, multi-page TIFFs, and PDFs, converting them into searchable PDF documents - all running entirely in the browser with free tools....

In the previous article, we talked about how to scan barcodes using a USB camera on an Android device. In this article, we are going to scan MRZ (machine-readable zone) on passports and ID cards with Dynamsoft Label Recognizer. Here is a video of the result: New Project Open Android...

Electron is a framework for building desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. As web technologies have emerged as the best choice for building user interfaces, more and more developers are adopting Electron to build their applications. In this article, we are going to create an Electron desktop app to...

MRZ stands for machine-readable zone, which is usually at the bottom of the identity page at the beginning of a passport or ID card.1 It can be read by a computing device with a camera to get information like document type, name, document number, nationality, date of birth, sex, and...

MRZ stands for machine-readable zone, which is usually at the bottom of the identity page at the beginning of a passport or ID card.1 It can be read by a computing device with a camera to get information like document type, name, document number, nationality, date of birth, sex, and...

Dynamsoft Label Recognizer is an SDK to recognize the text of key areas. Its major use case is to read MRZ (machine-readable zone) on passports. In this article, we are going to build an iOS MRZ scanner using Dynamsoft Label Recognizer with Swift. A demo video of the final result:...

Jetpack Compose is Android’s recommended modern toolkit for building native UI. It simplifies and accelerates UI development on Android. In this article, we are going to create an MRZ text scanner in Jetpack Compose with CameraX for camera access and Dynamsoft Label Recognizer to perform OCR. Note: MRZ stands for...

Capacitor is an open-source native runtime created by the Ionic team for building Web Native apps. We can use it to create cross-platform iOS, Android, and Progressive Web Apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Using Capacitor plugins, we can use JavaScript to interface directly with native APIs. In this article,...

We need to use OCR in various scenarios, whether we want to scan the credit card number with our phone or extract text from documents. Dynamsoft Label Recognition (DLR) and Dynamic Web TWAIN (DWT) have the OCR ability to accurately read text. Although generally they can do a good job,...

Dynamsoft Label Recognition (DLR) is an OCR SDK implemented in C/C++. The 1.0 Beta version was recently rolled out for Windows and Linux platforms. This article will demonstrate how to utilize the APIs of Dynamsoft Label Recognition to create a text recognition app on Windows. Requirements Dynamsoft Label Recognition 1.0...