Driver License Parser Definition

Written by: Dave Sullivan, senior VP, sales and marketing, Datalogic Scanning Support Retail Customers in Selling Regulated Items Retailers who sell regulated goods such as alcohol and tobacco must follow U.S. Local, state, and federal requirements to accurately verify a customer's age and identity. To enable Retailers to more effectively comply with government regulations, it is important to offer your retailers a choice of bar code scanners which can simplify (or automate) the verification process by reading and sending the pertinent data found within the bar codes on Government issued identification cards including most state driver’s licenses. Reading and sending the data found within the bar codes on Government issued identification cards, including most state driver’s licenses to the point-of-sale, quickly verifies and assures the customer’s legal age. This helps in protecting the retailer from fines and the potential loss of their license to sell age restricted goods. In addition, the burden of decision making and proof is removed from the cashier when your customers scan an approved ID before selling restricted items.

Do Your Bar Code Scanners Parse Driver's License Bar Codes. This helps in protecting the retailer from fines and the potential loss of their license to sell age. If you are under 18 and at least 15 ½ you can apply for a provisional driver license. European Handball Game Sense Gambling. The first step to getting your license is to get your instruction permit.

Some retailers with lower volume, smaller item count transactions or with a high percentage of large/awkward sized SKU’s will prefer handheld scanning, and in other applications with higher volume and more items per transaction and generally smaller sized SKU’s hands-free scanning will be a better option. Additional Benefits to Retailers A residual benefit of using imaging based bar code scanners for reading driver’s licenses is that the extracted information can also be used for many other value added applications beyond just verifying age and ID expiration dates. For example you can auto-populate many types of forms including credit card applications, loyalty programs, product return forms, hunting/fishing licenses, and bridal registration applications. These additional applications can provide a return in customer loyalty as well as capturing customer data to understand your customer base more effectively. Using an imaging bar code reader eliminates manual data entry, increases efficiency at the retail point-of-sale, and prevents errors in the sale of controlled items such as alcohol and tobacco. Things to consider in selecting the right bar code scanner Resellers and VARs can also do their homework to learn which scanners work “out of the box”, and which require programming prior to use.

How simple or complex are the programming and installation? Can the reseller do the programming before delivery to the customer? Which scanners are most durable and reliable? Can the scanners also accommodate the other needs of the retailer, such as reading the new GS1 DataBar codes? About Datalogic Scanning Resellers can take advantage of Datalogic Scanning’s expertise in the retail segment with both hands-free and handheld scanners with capacity to decode stacked PDF417 bar codes on state drivers’ licenses. A new drivers’ license parsing application is available with each handheld scanner at no extra charge.

Datalogic Scanning offers both in-counter and on-counter fixed retail scanners and the most complete line of general purpose and ruggedized handheld scanners available today. Driver S License Center Island Avenue Philadelphia Pa here. The company serves multiple industries throughout the retail supply chain and distribution channel as well as manufacturing, government, healthcare, banking and finance sectors. Editor's NoteI received a question from a reader concerning the above article. Dave Sullivan, senior VP, sales and marketing at Datalogic Scanning provided the answer. Question: There was no discussion of the legality of scanning this data in the article. My understanding is that some state have stated this data is for government use only, therefore making it illegal to scan this data.

Any thoughts? Sullivan: That is true.

It is a state by state decision whether to encode data on drivers' licenses or not. Most states currently use the magnetic strip or 2D barcode technology to encode data on state-issued drivers' licenses. Of the states that do encode this data, most have provisions which allow for businesses to scan this data to verify age and identity.

Some states are starting to regulate this practice. For example in New Hampshire and Texas businesses are not allowed to save data scanned from drivers' licenses for any purpose.

In addition, it is illegal in all states for businesses to sell data collected from drivers' licenses.

I support a custom application which parses driver's license information according to the data on the magnetic strip on the rear. Our programmer currently coded it to only support Florida driver's licenses. I'd like it to work for more than that. I am of the impression that the only thing he needs is a jump on the parsing logic, so really any code that accepts a string containing the literal decoded magnetic stripe data and returns some sort of structure containing the information it found would is all I need. With the logic worked out, I have no doubt he's capable of implementing it in any other language. Anyone know of any code in any language that will parse a driver's license?

It must be all code, so we can see the logic work -- no binary blobs that are accessed via an ABI. I googled but didn't get much, and I'm not really a programmer anyway, so I wouldn't know the first place to look. Thanks in advance!, 07:45 PM.