Barcode Interpretation Information The South Carolina DMV driver license and identification cards contain a PDF417 two-dimensional (2-D) barcode on the reverse of all cards. This barcode contains the same text information contained on the front of the card and is useful for performing functions such as electronic age verification. PDF417 is a 2D barcode symbology. It has a unique structure and large data capacity. PDF417 empowers you to encode over 1000 alpha-numeric characters within one symbol, both ASCII and extended ASCII characters. Therefore, PDF417 barcode is a good solution for encoding large quantities of data in one symbol. PDF417 uses Reed-Solomon-algorithm.

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Hi there I want to create my own scan fo US driver's license and now am stuck with how to create the PDF417 Barcode behind the card. I hear there is a software for it. Please anyone who has this software for encoding the PDF417 barcode behind the usa driver's license should kindly link me up. Through pm or on this thread.

All of this is fairly straight forward.
1. Scan the back of your license / permit using a medium - high resolution. The resolution should be set so that the 2d barcode is about 2000 pixels long.
2. Open up the image in Photoshop and cut out the 2d barcode. The 2d barcode is the one on the bottom in the picture. Most states use the PDF-417 (Portable Data File, with 17 modules each containing 4 bars and spaces, thus 417). Edit the barcode so that it is exactly 2000 or less pixels long because that is the maximum the program will allow, and save it.
3. Open swipe toolkit pdf417 barcode reader, available to download in the last step, and load your barcode into it. Click decode image, and a window with all your information should pop up. The picture shows the window that I got ( I removed thinks I should probably care about). As you can see, you can view the information processed, in raw bytes, or in hex. An interesting thing to note is if your card contains your social security number, some states put it on and some states don't.

With more than 500,000 apps, there’s an app for just about anything in the App Store. But we didn’t know there was an app for creating fake driver’s license. If you were hoping to get it, you can’t as MacRumors reports that Apple has removed the app aptly called Drivers License from the App Store after getting a complaint from U.S. Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania.

The Coalition for a Secure Driver’s License issued the following statement today:

The “License” application by DriversEd.com for Apple iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad allows users to electronically insert any digital photo and the biographic information of their choosing into a template for a driver’s license of a state of their choosing. The “License” application contains templates for driver’s licenses for all 50 states, many of which are of designs that will be valid for the next several years. The user is then able to send the high quality digital image of the completed template to an email account. From the email attachment, the image can then be printed and laminated, creating a high quality counterfeit driver’s license difficult to discern from one that’s genuine.

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Here’s what Senator Bob Casey had to say in his letter to Apple:

“I believe this application poses a threat to public safety and national security…it can be used in a way that allows criminals to create a new identity, steal someone else’s identity, or permit underage youth to purchase alcohol or tobacco illegally. National security systems depend on the trustworthiness of driver’s licenses, yet with a counterfeit license created by the app, a terrorist could bypass identity verification by the Transportation Security Administration, or even apply for a passport.”

It looks like the app has been available in the App Store for two years now and Apple seems to have removed it only after Senator Casey raised the issue as they had not responded to a similar request by the Coalition for a Secure Driver’s License.

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Here’s the description of the app from the App Store:

Create your coolest license EVER. With Drivers License, you can make realistic, crazy, or hilarious drivers licenses for any state.*

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Take pictures with your iPhone or use pictures you already have and paste them into to the app for endless hours of fun. Take pics alone or with friends, take mug shots or make faces, whatever you can think of, this app will support it.

Drivers License lets you change all the info on the licenses, too! Create a fake name, job, or title. The app stores everything you do so just hit “change state” to see what your license looks like in New York or sunny California.

Best of all, once your license is complete, you can email or share it with your friends on Facebook.

Based on the description, it seemed like a fun app, but we may be too naive to understand the seriousness of the risk such an app could pose. What do you think?

[via Mac Rumors]

If you’ve renewed your driver’s license any time in the last few years, you have likely noticed an increase in its visual complexity. Many governing bodies have made significant strides towards making forgery more difficult. The unfortunate side-effect from that positive change is that traditional recognition algorithms are more difficult with the many colors, backgrounds, holograms, and layouts.

Thankfully, new driver’s licenses also have PDF417 barcodes on them, and in North America, follow specifications laid out by the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA). These barcodes are small, error resistant, and can encode a lot of information.

This tutorial will introduce you to the classes and methods for both reading and writing AAMVA-compliant barcodes from Driver’s Licenses.

Reading AAMVA Barcodes

Since Driver’s Licenses are so broadly accepted as forms of identification, there are a wealth of opportunities for reading the information from them. We covered those concepts in an earlier white paper on Capturing Customer Information from Driver’s Licenses, so we won’t repeat them here. That paper also discussed using the PDF417 barcodes before they were regulated by AAMVA. Since then, LEADTOOLS has added a new AAMVAID class which does all the field parsing for you.

What’s the big deal? Take a look at the raw data for an AAMVA barcode:

Where’s the name? Or the birthdate? Do you need to calculate if this person is over 21 and legally allowed to make a purchase? With LEADTOOLS, you can get that kind of information in beautiful, strongly typed properties:

Writing AAMVA Barcodes

There may be fewer reasons for generating AAMVA barcodes, but every motor vehicle agency in every state or province in the United States, Canada, and Mexico needs the ability to print them on the licenses they issue. Naturally, you can’t just print any old barcode onto licenses and IDs. As with most specifications, they are hard to follow and can cause a significant development roadblock due to the R&D requirements. LEADTOOLS simplifies this in two ways: generating the AAMVA string and creating the PDF417 barcode.

First, you need to convert your customer data into a valid AAMVA string value. To aid in this process, LEADTOOLS provides the AAMVAIDBuilder class. The builder will help organize the data and output it conforming to the 2016 AAMVA CDS. Here we initialize the AAMVAIDBuilder, add some information and then use the Build function to generate the AAMVAID object:

Now that our customer’s information is correctly encoded for AAMVA, we will create the PDF417 barcode. Thanks to LEAD’s nearly three decades of experience in with raster and document imaging technologies, this process is even simpler than writing the AAMVA string despite the barcode’s greater complexity. Here we generate the BarcodeEngine, set a few options to help the proportions make AAMVA happy, and LEADTOOLS takes care of the rest. In this simple case, we simply created a blank image using the calculated bounds of the barcode:

As a check, we’ll load the image back into the Main Barcode demo like before and read the data.

Change the World! (or at least your DMV...)

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Reading is actually the easy part. Most of you on this blog are pretty keen and might've picked up on how the raw data in that string worked and thought, 'I could parse that!' As mentioned previously, the biggest catch out there is adoption. It's one thing to figure out how to parse some values from a long text string, but writing them out correctly and following the AAMVA spec is what's really holding states and countries back. LEADTOOLS makes it incredibly easy to make sure your data follows the specifications, AND can write the barcode. So get out there and code something that's so easy, even a sloth can do it!

Conclusion

LEADTOOLS has a history of staying on the forefront of document imaging and recognition technologies like OCR, Forms, Barcode, and PDF. Driver’s licenses and IDs have become far more complex, yet better regulated with the adoption of AAMVA barcodes. LEADTOOLS will stay a viable option for developers wanting to quickly and easily create software to read and write identification data stored in AAMVA barcodes.

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Download the Full AAMVA Barcode Example

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You can download the fully functional demo which includes the features discussed above. To run this example you will need the following:

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• LEADTOOLS free evaluation
• Visual Studio 2010 or later
• Browse to the LEADTOOLS Examples folder (e.g. C:∖LEADTOOLS 20∖Examples∖) where you can find example projects for this and many more technologies in LEADTOOLS.

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