Document & Card Reading
Reading identity documents and cards — MRZ, visual inspection zones, barcodes, NFC chips and contact smart cards.
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Mobile document capture
Document classification across formats
Overview
Axon's document and card reading engine extracts structured data from every zone of an identity document — the ICAO machine-readable zone, visual inspection zones, and PDF417, QR and AAMVA barcodes — and reads contactless NFC chips and ISO 7816 contact smart cards through the same capture flow. It recognises approximately 16,000+ distinct identity documents across 254 countries and territories, including passports, ID cards, driver's licenses, visas and residence permits.
Capabilities
Total Templates
~16,000+ distinct identity documents.
Geographic Reach
254 countries and territories.
Document Types
Passports, ID cards, driver's licenses, visas, and residence permits.
MRZ Reading
Automated extraction and parsing of ICAO MRZ from TD1, TD2 and TD3 documents.
VIZ Reading
Optical character recognition across visual inspection zones and free-text fields.
Barcode Decoding
PDF417, QR, DataMatrix and AAMVA barcode support.
NFC Chip Reading
Contactless reading of ePassport and national eID chips — see ePassport SDK for cryptographic verification.
Contact Smart Card
ISO 7816 contact card reading on COMET reader hardware.
Document Classification
Automatic identification of document type and issuing country.
Quality Detection
Glare, blur and tamper detection on captured images.
Multi-language
Latin, Arabic, Cyrillic, Chinese and Thai script support.
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