Many businesses are using the barcode on your ID and a 2D Imager like the AirTrack S2 to quickly verify your age or capture your basic info to make signing up for a service quicker. The only real snag with the barcode on your license is that every state doesn’t organize the information in the code the same way. Michigander at 7:55 am. The PDF417 code on a Michigan license encodes DOB, lastname, firstmiddlenames, date of issue, date of expiration, address, DL number, and a long string I haven’t found a meaning for yet.

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ClearImage Driver License Reader SDK. Extract personal identification and reference data from US and Canada Driver Licenses and ID cards. Read the PDF417 and 1D barcodes from identification documents around the world using optimized image enhancement algorithms.

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commented Mar 14, 2016

I used Mobile Vision API to detect US Driver Licenses. I am able to scan the DL PDF417 barcodes and I see that driverLicense object is set within Barcode object. However for some states (Eg. FL, NC) the driverLicense object is NULL.

When I checked the valueFormat in Barcode object it is set to 12 (Barcode.DRIVER_LICENSE) for working scenario and set to 7 (Barcode.TEXT) for non-working scenario. Could you confirm whether this is an issue with BarcodeScanner APIs? Sample code is as follows.

commented Mar 15, 2016

The DL/ID parser is fairly simple and doesn't work perfectly on IDs from all states, unfortunately. There might be some jurisdiction-specific fields that are tripping it up, or they might not be using a fully spec-compliant encoding.

We'd like to improve it -- if you'd like to help, the anonymized raw text of the non-working cards would be helpful in diagnosing the problem. However, if you aren't comfortable sharing it (or just aren't sure how to completely remove all identifying information) that's okay too!

commented Mar 15, 2016

If you can't share the raw values, it would be helpful to know where the first occurrence of 'DL' appears in the values that won't parse. Normally, it would be at index 21 (e.g. '@n rANSI 636045030002DL').

commented Mar 15, 2016

Sure, here is the raw data from the scanner. I used the sample license from internet for FL state.
03-21 14:41:49.422 4238 5774 D BarcodeScannerActivity: Barcode Format: 2048
03-21 14:41:49.429 4238 5774 D BarcodeScannerActivity: Barcode Raw: @
ANSI 6360100102DL00390201ZF02400052DLDAASAMPLE,IDENTIFICATION,CARD
03-21 14:41:49.429 4238 5774 D BarcodeScannerActivity: DAG2900 APALACHEE PKWY
03-21 14:41:49.429 4238 5774 D BarcodeScannerActivity: DAITALLAHASSEE
03-21 14:41:49.429 4238 5774 D BarcodeScannerActivity: DAJFL
03-21 14:41:49.429 4238 5774 D BarcodeScannerActivity: DAK32399-6552
03-21 14:41:49.429 4238 5774 D BarcodeScannerActivity: DAQS514403827471
03-21 14:41:49.429 4238 5774 D BarcodeScannerActivity: DARI
03-21 14:41:49.429 4238 5774 D BarcodeScannerActivity: DAS
03-21 14:41:49.429 4238 5774 D BarcodeScannerActivity: DAT
03-21 14:41:49.429 4238 5774 D BarcodeScannerActivity: DBA20110707
03-21 14:41:49.429 4238 5774 D BarcodeScannerActivity: DBB19820707
03-21 14:41:49.429 4238 5774 D BarcodeScannerActivity: DBC2
03-21 14:41:49.429 4238 5774 D BarcodeScannerActivity: DBD20070502
03-21 14:41:49.429 4238 5774 D BarcodeScannerActivity: DBHN
ZFZFADUPLICATE: 20070504 5774 D BarcodeScannerActivity: DAU507
03-21 14:41:49.429 4238 5774 D BarcodeScannerActivity: ZFB
03-21 14:41:49.429 4238 5774 D BarcodeScannerActivity: ZFCQ010705040016
03-21 14:41:49.429 4238 5774 D BarcodeScannerActivity: ZFD

commented Mar 15, 2016

Sample FL DL.PDF
Attached the sample license card.

commented Mar 15, 2016

I got the NC state info and removed the personal info. Let me know whether this helps. This is from a valid NC state DL.

@
� AAMVA36004001DL00280208DLDABLASTNAME
DACFIRSTNAME
DADMIDDLE MIDDLE MIDDLE
DAE
DAL123 SAMPLE ST
DAM
DANCHARLOTTE
DAONC
DAP12345-6789
DAQ99999999
DARC
DASNone
DATNone
DAV6-04
DAYBLU
DAZBRO
DBA11-28-2019
DBB04-01-1984
DBCM
DBD06-11-2012
DBHY

commented Mar 15, 2016

Here is the NJ state DL which is working fine, 03-21 17:53:57.419 28002 28431 D BarcodeScannerActivity: Barcode Format: 2048
03-21 17:53:57.420 28002 28431 D BarcodeScannerActivity: Barcode Raw: @
ANSI 636036040002DL00410318ZN03590153DLDAQK00000000000000
03-21 17:53:57.420 28002 28431 D BarcodeScannerActivity: DCSLASTNAME
03-21 17:53:57.420 28002 28431 D BarcodeScannerActivity: DDEU
03-21 17:53:57.420 28002 28431 D BarcodeScannerActivity: DACFIRSTNAME
03-21 17:53:57.420 28002 28431 D BarcodeScannerActivity: DDFU
03-21 17:53:57.420 28002 28431 D BarcodeScannerActivity: DAD
03-21 17:53:57.420 28002 28431 D BarcodeScannerActivity: DDGU
03-21 17:53:57.420 28002 28431 D BarcodeScannerActivity: DCAD
03-21 17:53:57.420 28002 28431 D BarcodeScannerActivity: DCBNONE
03-21 17:53:57.420 28002 28431 D BarcodeScannerActivity: DCDNONE
03-21 17:53:57.420 28002 28431 D BarcodeScannerActivity: DBD02222014
03-21 17:53:57.420 28002 28431 D BarcodeScannerActivity: DBB01011900
03-21 17:53:57.420 28002 28431 D BarcodeScannerActivity: DBA03192017
03-21 17:53:57.420 28002 28431 D BarcodeScannerActivity: DBC1
03-21 17:53:57.420 28002 28431 D BarcodeScannerActivity: DAU064 in
03-21 17:53:57.420 28002 28431 D BarcodeScannerActivity: DAYBLK
03-21 17:53:57.420 28002 28431 D BarcodeScannerActivity: DAG107 BERMUDA DR
03-21 17:53:57.420 28002 28431 D BarcodeScannerActivity: DAINESHANIC STATI
03-21 17:53:57.420 28002 28431 D BarcodeScannerActivity: DAJNJ
03-21 17:53:57.420 28002 28431 D BarcodeScannerActivity: DAK088534286
03-21 17:53:57.420 28002 28431 D BarcodeScannerActivity: DCFED201405300000212
03-21 17:53:57.420 28002 28431 D BarcodeScannerActivity: DCGUSA
03-21 17:53:57.420 28002 28431 D BarcodeScannerActivity: DDAB
03-21 17:53:57.420 28002 28431 D BarcodeScannerActivity: DDB07232010
ZNZNAFN7:53:57.420 28002 28431 D BarcodeScannerActivity: DDDT
03-21 17:53:57.420 28002 28431 D BarcodeScannerActivity: ZNB19.88
03-21 17:53:57.420 28002 28431 D BarcodeScannerActivity: ZNCRENC
03-21 17:53:57.420 28002 28431 D BarcodeScannerActivity: ZNETEMP IMMGR STATUS
03-21 17:53:57.420 28002 28431 D BarcodeScannerActivity: ZNFBLK
03-21 17:53:57.420 28002 28431 D BarcodeScannerActivity: ZNH88:igJvvXLJs8EWsvn8in7RvzDTmCOYM3CSgdgdgdfFgg/u0SdDaYt2IXGALST10ufQM8WmBSciv60GNuORlAh82cQ;0291;
03-21 17:53:57.420 28002 28431 D BarcodeScannerActivity: Barcode Obj:com.google.android.gms.vision.barcode.Barcode$DriverLicense@80230b

Drivers License Barcode Format