User's Manual

3-2 D SCAN
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AUTHENTICATOR User Manual v1.0
• Verification of ID documents
• Search against blacklists
• Transaction automation
Hotels
• Check-in
• Automated check-in for pre-registered guests
• Reading personal data from ID documents of guests and transmitting to authorities
Border control
• Automated border control
• Authentication of ID documents
• Providing reliable and efficient border control
Mobile Communications
• ID verification of customers
• Search against blacklists
• Contract automation
Characteristics of documents
General properties of Machine Readable Travel Documents are standardized in ICAO Doc 9303. This
includes the structure, font, and location of the Machine Readable Zone (MRZ), MRZ check digits,
and some UV properties of the document paper to be used. With the D SCAN Extensions software,
these features are always checked. Images in all available illuminations are always captured
accordance with the installed hardware options.
The default document recognition and check software works with ICAO 9303 compliant documents
of ID1, ID2, and ID3 format. A machine readable zone (MRZ) must be exactly as specified in Doc
9303, with special attention to the OCR-B font.
Additionally, documents, which are not compliant with ICAO specifications, can be detected and can
be taught to the system on request.
The machine readable zone
The ICAO Doc 9303 standard defines the Machine Readable Zone (MRZ) of any Machine Readable
Travel Document (MRTD). The position and dimensions of the MRZ is different for every document
type (e.g Passport, Visa, ID Card). The certain definition for each document type can be found in
ICAO Doc 9303. As an example the MRZ for an Passport according to the ICAO Doc 9303 standard
is illustrated in the following graphic:
• 23.2 mm (0.91 in) height from the lower edge of the document
• Over the total width of the document
• It spans two lines and each line is 44 characters long