According to the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) specification, US driver’s licenses store personal information using the PDF417 barcode symbology. Google’s Mobile Vision APIs can recognize PDF417 barcodes and extract driver’s license data, while the combination of Dynamsoft Barcode Reader and Dynamsoft Code Parser achieves the same goal....

Flutter enables developers to create applications for desktop, mobile, and web from a single codebase. However, not all plugins are universally compatible with every platform. In this article, you will learn how to choose appropriate plugins to build a web-based barcode, QR code, and PDF417 scanner in Flutter. Although the...

If you are looking for the specification of South African driving license, you may be disappointed. There is no official reference except for the Stack Overflow Q&A, an incomplete document - ZA Drivers License format and an C# open source project. The Stack Overflow Q&A provides the RSA public key...

PDF417 is a stacked linear barcode format used in a variety of applications such as transport, identification cards, and inventory management.1 We can find it on a boarding pass, driver’s license, patient wristband, etc. PDF417 on a US driver’s license: A PDF417 has five parts: start pattern, left row indicator,...

A few weeks ago, I wrote an article sharing how to read driver’s license information from PDF417 on Android. Compared to building an Android native camera app, building a web camera app is much easier. In this article, let’s take a glimpse at a JavaScript sample, which is implemented with...

If you have upgraded to the latest HTML5 version of DWT(Dynamic Web TWAIN), probably you have noticed that it only supports 1D barcode reading. Although the 2D barcode SDK has not been officially released yet, it is coming soon. Today, I’d like to demo how to build a Web application...