Machine Readable Zone (MRZ) is a crucial feature adopted in modern passports, visas, and ID cards. It contains essential information about the document holder, such as their name, gender, country code, and document number. MRZ recognition plays a key role in border control, airport security, and hotel check-in processes. In...

Machine Readable Zone (MRZ) recognition is a critical feature in applications that require scanning and processing identity documents, such as passports and visas. On Android devices, implementing accurate MRZ recognition can significantly enhance the efficiency and user experience of such apps. In this article, we will explore how to use...

The Dynamsoft Label Recognizer JavaScript SDK offers a robust OCR engine capable of extracting MRZ (Machine Readable Zone) characters from passports, visas, and other travel documents. It is a key part of Dynamsoft’s Capture Vision Suite, which also includes the Barcode Reader, Camera Enhancer, and Document Normalizer. This article will...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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 4 in a 8-Part Series. Part 1 - Building Desktop Passport Scanner with Qt...

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...