Personal data collection with the MRZ Reader SDK
Enable your app to capture data from international ID documents with Scanbot’s MRZ Scanner.

Fast & accurate MRZ data capture wherever you are
To automatically process ID information, you need to extract the data as key-value pairs first. With the Scanbot SDK, your app can quickly and accurately capture personal data from machine-readable zones (MRZ) in compliance with the highest data protection standards. Add MRZ scanning to your app and reduce manual data entry workload and cost now.
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Example use cases for the MRZ scanner
Self check-in
Make checking into hotels, events, or flights simple by scanning and extracting information from machine-readable zones.
Customer onboarding
Simplify customer onboarding by extracting all information from machine-readable zones on ID cards and pre-filling forms.
Self-verification
Quickly let your customers confirm their identity by scanning the machine-readable zone on their ID documents.
Machine readable zones – detect, scan & extract
The Scanbot Data Capture SDK supports both two-line (TD3, TD2) and three-line (TD1, MRV-A, MRV-B) standards. It supports the following MRZ data fields on ID documents:
- Document type
- Document ID
- Name
- Given names
- Date of birth
- Gender
- Nationality
- Date of expiry
- Issuing authority
On-device solution for maximum privacy & usability
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