User's Manual

3M Confidential DRAFT Travel Document Reader User Guide
DT-01715C © 3M 2006 All rights reserved.
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The readers perform optical character recognition on documents that conform to ICAO 9303
specifications, and send data from the document to a host computer over a Universal Serial Bus
(USB) connection.
The base functionality for the different readers varies:
3M™ Full Page Reader
• Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
• 1D barcode reading
• visible and infrared imaging
3M™ Authentication System
• OCR
• 1D barcode reading
• visible, infrared (IR) and ultraviolet (UV) imaging
• 3M™ Confirm™ laminate imaging, authentication and tamper detection
• enhanced document authentication
3M™ ePassport Reader
• OCR
• 1D barcode reading
• Contactless Integrated Circuit (CIC) reading and writing
• digital signature verification
• optional UV, and 3M™ Confirm™ laminate imaging, authentication and tamper
detection
Each reader can help the operator detect forged or counterfeit documents. Optionally reading the
UV features printed in fluorescent inks on a document provides inspectors with colour images of
the UV scan.
Optional 3M™ Confirm™ laminate imaging allows the inspectors to quickly verify the
authenticity of the document. It can also indicate if documents have been tampered with by
revealing marks or other damage.
The following images were taken using a reader: