According to the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) specification, PDF417 symbology is used for storing personal information on US driver licenses. It comprises critical information about the cardholder, such as their name, gender, date of birth, height, etc. Many organizations, both government and private, use the driver’s license for identification purposes and age verification.
Feb 10, 2015 US Drivers License Barcode Attributes by State. Ever have your Drivers License scanned at a store? Well here’s the private information you’re releasing by State. What is on the Drivers License Bar Code? This entry was posted in DataViz on by MantasCode. License is a parser/decoder for the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) format that is used to encode the magnetic stripe found on Driver's Licenses in the US and Canada. Most data is available both in its raw and decoded form. You should refer to the latest specification at www.aamva.org for details on the field contents. Drivers License Barcode Generator Free Information about the generator of US SSN, Driver License (DL), State ID, Passport, and Tax ID numbers and data This tool generates information from algorithms, it does not produce actual issued documents nor facsimiles, specimen or samples of real documents. Driver's License Info. First Name: Last Name: Middle Name: Birth Year: Birth Month: January February March April May June July August September October November December. Driver's License Info. First Name: Last Name: Middle Name: Birth Year: Birth Month: January February March April May June July August September October November December.
Barcode recognition technology is considered more accurate and cost-effective than OCR for extracting data. Because the driver’s license is widely accepted as a form of identification in different areas and is considered the primary method of identification in countries like the US, it is imperative to use a barcode reader that accurately reads and extracts the data.
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Dynamsoft Barcode SDK is designed to read barcodes from a variety of platforms and devices. Below are some of the ways you can use the barcode SDK for reading the PDF417 and extracting information on driver licenses.
Read from document scanners: decode driver’s licenses in web
Working together with Dynamic Web TWAIN, the barcode reader add-on allows you to scan a picture of a US driver’s license from a document scanner and extract data from PDF417.
Read from cameras: decode driver’s licenses in web
Dynamsoft JavaScript Barcode SDK provides high-performance barcode scanning functionality for web developers. It also offers built-in camera module APIs, making the process of creating an HTML5 barcode reader with cameras extremely convenient.
Read from cameras: decode driver’s licenses in mobile native apps
With Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK for iOS and Android, developers can easily create a barcode reader app to extract information from PDF417 codes on driver’s licenses.
PDF417 Driver's License Parser
Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK is capable of quickly parsing PDF417 barcode symbology. Once decoded, a parser is required to convert the information contained in the barcode into human-readable formats.
The parser breaks down the decoded PDF417 values into field-value pairs, such as cardholder’s name, eye color, height, date of birth, etc.
An example of parsed PDF417 values is shown below:
- First Name
- HEIDIFIRSTNAMEUPTO40CHARACTERSXYWXYWXYWX
- Given Name
- HEIDIFIRSTNAMEUPTO40CHARACTERSXYWXYWXYWX
- Middle Name or Initial
- MIDDLENAMEUPTO40CHARACTERSXYWXYWXYWXYWXY
- Middle Name
- MIDDLENAMEUPTO40CHARACTERSXYWXYWXYWXYWXY
- Mailing Street Address1
- 123 SAMPLE DRIVE
- Mailing Street Address2
- APT B
- Mailing City
- INDIANAPOLIS
- Mailing Jurisdiction Code
- IN
- Mailing Postal Code
- 462040000
Case Studies
- Millennial Vision, Inc.
- VALID USA, Inc
Millennial Vision, Inc. (MVi) is known for providing enterprise content management and document management solutions to credit unions and various financial institutions across the United States and the Caribbean. While looking for a robust barcode reader SDK, MVi tried Dynamsoft Barcode SDK and selected it for its simplicity, power, and cost-effectiveness.
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Our barcode reader SDK helps MVi scan PDF417 barcodes from driver’s licenses and further use the extracted data to auto-populate metadata fields for financial institution forms and applications.
Another essential factor in MVi’s decision to choose Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK was the time to market. With DBR, they saved a lot of time that would have been required to develop a barcode reader solution in-house.
VALID USA, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of its Brazilian parent company VALID S.A, was looking for an image capture software development kit (SDK) for its popular product, WebLink ID. WebLink ID is an enrolment, credentials, and application management web app. The application is used for issuing mass student IDs, transit cards, access control cards, ID documents, and state driver’s licenses. Thus, document scanning/image capture capabilities were a requirement for the software. But, VALID did not want to build this capability from scratch in order to focus on its core expertise.
After trying and testing many products, VALID chose Dynamsoft's ImageCapture Suite SDK, which helped them shorten time to market and build better software.
Today, the application is used by thousands of workers to capture millions of images annually in diverse environments. Some of these are K-12 and higher education institutions, US state governments, the public transit industry, and many other vertical markets that require photo identification.
FAQ on Dynamsoft's Driver's License Reader
What is the barcode format on the back of the driving licenses?
According to the 2020 AAMVA DL/ID Card Design Standard, the PDF417 two dimensional bar code symbology is the minimum mandatory machine-readable technology that must be present on compliant DL/ID documents.
What information is included in the driver’s license pdf417 code?
Mandatory data elements:
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- Family name
- Given names
- Date of birth
- Date of Issue
- Date of expiry
- Customer identifier
- Document discriminator
- Portrait
- Signature
- Cardholder
- Vehicle classifications
- Endorsements
- Restrictions
- Cardholder sex
- Height
- Eye color
Does the driver’s license SDK need an internet connection to work?
No. The SDK works completely offline.
Is the driver’s license SDK secure?
Yes, it is GDPR-Compliant as the processing of the driver’s license data is on-device. All the captured user information stays in your closed system.
Does Dynamsoft have any other ID scanner SDKs?
Yes. Dynamsoft also provides an MRZ scanner SDK for passports.
License is a parser/decoder for the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators(AAMVA) format that is used to encode the magnetic stripe found on Driver's Licenses in the US and Canada. Most data is available both in its raw and decoded form. You should refer to the latest specification at www.aamva.org for details on the field contents. Starting and ending sentinals in the track data are optional.
Load the tracks you have available, only track 1 is mandatory. Not all magnetic stripe readers can read track 3.
(1). If expiration date year is 2077, license never expires. Otherwise, this field represents the last valid date.
(2). Height is in inches or cm depending on country. Weight is in pounds or kg. Call the country method to determine country of origin: USA, MEX or CAN.
(3). This the raw hair color, e.g. BRO. For a description, call the haircolor method.
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Driver's License Barcode Data
Attempts to determine country of origin from the ISO ID. Returns CAN, MEX or USA.
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