Machine-Readable Zone Fields

ABBYY FineReader Engine 12 provides extraction of the following machine-readable zone (MRZ) fields:

Field type Description
DocumentType The type of a document.
DocumentSubtype The subtype of a document (if exists).
IssuingCountry Code of issuing state (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code).
LastName Document holder's surname.
GivenName One or several given names separated with the space character.
DocumentNumber The number of the document (this field contains 9 digits in the ICAO Standard passports and 10 digits in the Russian national passport).
Nationality Document holder's nationality (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code).
BirthDate Document holder's date of birth.
Sex Document holder's sex.
ExpiryDate Document date of expiry.
PersonalNumber Document holder's personal number (if exists).
OptionalDataLine1 Optional data from the first line of the 2-line or 3-line MRZ.
OptionalDataLine2 Optional data from the second line of the 2-line or 3-line MRZ.

See also

MrzFieldTypeEnum

MrzField

Machine-Readable Zone Capture

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