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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.

Secure Driver’s Licenses and Identification Cards Data Content and Format as Encoded in Sample PDF417 - 2011 AAMVA Standard, Revision Date: FIELD DATA ELEMENT ID CONTENT Class 6/ANS DCA C Restrictions 12/ANS DCB B. California Driver License's Format (DMV)- Magnetic Stripe Support, time and attendance, labor tracking, data terminals, plastic card. AAMVA, Magnetic Strip Best Practices, August 1993 AAMVA, Best Practice Recommendation for the use of Bar – Codes, January 1997 ASCII/ISO 8859-1 ANSI D20, Data Dictionary for Traffic Record Information Systems, April 2003 AAMVA, Policy Positions & Bylaws of the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, October 2003.

(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.

$p->loadtrack(tracknumber,string);

$p->parse_magstripe

$p->country

Attempts to determine country of origin from the ISO ID. Returns CAN, MEX or USA.

$p->haircolor

Copyright Curt Evans, 2014. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: a) the GNU General Public License; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA b) the Perl Artistic License. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

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:

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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...)

credit: Giphy and Walt Disney Animation Studios

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!

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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

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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Need help getting this sample up and going? Contact our support team for free technical support! For pricing or licensing questions, you can contact our sales team (sales@leadtools.com) or call us at 704-332-5532.