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Many countries have now adopted an ID card design around 8.6 cm x 5.4 cm in size with three-line MRZ, like ID cards in Germany and the Netherlands. Dutch ID Card Specimen: In this article, we are going to talk about how to build an ID card scanner in Ionic...

Machine-Readable Zone (MRZ) recognition is an essential technology in various sectors, including security, immigration, and automation. Its application in Android software can enhance a wide array of services by enabling quick and accurate data capture from identification documents like passports and ID cards. This article aims to guide you through...

Passport Machine Readable Zone (MRZ) detection is sensitive to the orientation of the passport. If the passport is not right side up, the MRZ detection rate will be low. In this article, we will discuss how to improve the MRZ detection rate from rotated images with Python. Edge detection, perspective...

If you are a .NET developer, you might consider using Blazor for web development, as it allows you to write web apps using C# and HTML. A significant advantage of Blazor is its ability to reuse existing .NET libraries and open-source C# code. However, using Blazor doesn’t mean you can...

MRZ stands for “machine-readable zone”. It is usually at the bottom of an identity page for machines to read its info like document type, name, nationality, date of birth, sex and expiration date, etc. Dynamsoft Label Recognizer can read MRZ with sophisticated image processing algorithms and provides a JavaScript edition....

MRZ stands for “machine-readable zone”. It is usually at the bottom of an identity page for machines to read its info like document type, name, nationality, date of birth, sex and expiration date, etc. Dynamsoft Label Recognizer can read MRZ with sophisticated image processing algorithms and provides a JavaScript edition....

Dynamsoft’s Capture Vision SDKs consist of the Dynamsoft Document Normalizer, Dynamsoft Barcode Reader, and Dynamsoft Label Recognizer. All of these SDKs are cross-platform, supporting Windows, Linux, Android, iOS and web. Each vision SDK can be used independently or in combination with others. In this article, we’ll show you how to...

Machine-Readable Zone (MRZ) scanner applications are used for quick and automated data entry from identification documents such as passports, visas, ID cards, and other types of travel documents. Some industries such as banking, healthcare, hospitality, and transportation require MRZ scanning to verify the identity of their customers. With the increasing...

Microsoft Power Automate is a powerful service designed to automate workflows between various apps and services. Its Desktop version provides the added capability of automating desktop-centric operations, with or without user interface interactions. In this article, we will explore how to integrate Dynamsoft Barcode Reader, Dynamsoft Document Normalizer, and Dynamsoft...

Since Dynamsoft Label Recognizer supports Windows, Linux, Android, iOS and Web, we can create a 5 in 1 Flutter plugin for it to cover desktop, mobile and web platform development. In this article, you will see how to write an MRZ Flutter plugin using different platform-specific code, such as Java,...

This article aims to help Java developers build desktop and server-side Java applications to detect machine-readable zones (MRZ) in passports, travel documents, and ID cards. You will see how to encapsulate Dynamsoft C++ OCR SDK into a Java Jar package and how to quickly create a command-line MRZ detector with...

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,...

This article aims to help C# developers to build desktop .NET MRZ (Machine Readable Zone) scanner applications with Dynamsoft C++ Label Recognizer SDK. We firstly build a .NET class library for detecting MRZ zone and extracting MRZ text from passport, ID card, and travel documents. Then we demonstrate how to...

Ionic is a popular framework to build cross-platform mobile web apps. In this article, we are going to build an Ionic Angular app based on Cordova to scan the MRZ codes which are often found on passports. The JavaScript version of Dynamsoft Label Recognizer is used to provide the ability...

This article aims to build a Node.js module to recognize MRZ from passport, ID card, and travel documents on Windows and Linux. The module is implemented based on Dynamsoft C++ OCR SDK. This article is Part 6 in a 9-Part Series. Part 1 - Passport MRZ Recognition with Dynamsoft C++...

Dynamsoft Label Recognizer is a JavaScript MRZ SDK, which allows developers to build web applications to recognize passport, Visa, ID card and travel documents. By combining Dynamsoft Label Recognizer and Dynamsoft Camera Enhancer, it is easy to build real-time MRZ recognition applications with a camera. This article aims to wrap...

In the previous series of articles, we’ve created a react-native-vision-camera frame processor plugin of Dynamsoft Label Recognizer to recognize text. In this article, we are going to build an MRZ scanner using this plugin to better illustrate how to use it. MRZ stands for machine-readable zone, which is usually at...

The latest version 2.2.10 of Dynamsoft Label Recognizer C++ SDK has optimized the MRZ recognition model, which is much smaller and more accurate than the previous version. It now supports recognizing MRZ from passport, Visa, ID card and travel documents. To facilitate developing desktop MRZ recognition software, we can bind...

The WebView component included in modern mobile operating systems is becoming more and more powerful. For example, it supports showing the camera preview using getUserMedia and has support for WebAssembly, which makes it possible to use Dynamsoft Label Recognizer to create a text scanner to recognize text like passports’ machine-readable...

Recently, Dynamsoft compiled the C++ OCR SDK to a web assembly module. It aims to help web developers to build web passport MRZ scanner applications using HTML5 and JavaScript. This article shows how to build web applications to read MRZ information from passport images and scan passport MRZ information with...

If you search for passport scanner software or MRZ reader software, you will find many of them are only available for mobile devices. For police officers, scanning passports by mobile devices is convenient when they are patrolling. However, for customs and immigration officers, they usually use desktop system and professional...

Previously, I wrote a post about how to recognize passport MRZ from an image file using C++. In this post, I will create a more productive Android app, which utilizes camera to recognize MRZ. This article is Part 2 in a 9-Part Series. Part 1 - Passport MRZ Recognition with...

MRZ stands for machine readable zone. A passport has a machine-readable zone which contains the information about name, nationality, passport number, date of birth, sex, and expiration date of passport. This article introduces how to use Dynamsoft OCR SDK to recognize MRZ and parse the corresponding information. This article is...