V5.4.15 – 2018-10-02:

General changes:

• Increased strictness of colour authentication check.

Document specific changes:

• Enhanced the following documents:
  • Denmark – Health Card – Front
  • Belgium National Identification Card Back 2003 – 2010
  • Portugal – Citizen Card – Back – 2007
• The following document types were added to the document encyclopaedia:
  • Dominican – National Identification Card – Front – 2014
  • Italy – National Identification Card – Front – 2016
  • Lithuania – Driving License – Front – 2013
  • Mauritius – National Identification Card – Front – 2013
  • Sweden – National Identification Card – Front – 2013
  • Uruguay – National Identification Card – Front
  • Cyprus – Driving License – Front – 2015
  • Spain – Foreigner Identification Card – Front – 2003
  • United Kingdom – Driving License – Front
  • United Kingdom – National Identification Card – Front
  • Greece – Driving License – Front – 2009
  • Kenya – National Identification Card – Front – 2012
  • Luxembourg – Driving License – Front – 2013
  • Norway – Driving License – Front – 2013
  • Norway – National Identification Card – Front
  • Sweden – Bank Identification Card – Front
  • United States – Defense Identification Card – Front
  • Denmark – Driving License – Front – 1986

V5.4.13 – 2018-08-06:

General changes:

• Increased strictness of infrared presence check.
• Enhanced OCR performance.

Document specific changes:

• Enhanced the following documents:
  • Australia – Victoria – Learner Permit – Front – 2000 – 2009
  • Austria – Driving License – Front
  • Slovakia – Passport – Front – 2014
  • Australia – Victoria – Learner Permit – Front – 2009
  • Australia – Victoria – Heavy Driving License – Front – 2000 – 2009
  • Australia – Victoria – Learner Permit – Front – 2000 – 2009
  • Australia – Victoria – Probationary Driving License – Front – 2000 – 2009
  • Australia – Victoria – Driving License – Front – 2001 – 2009
  • Slovakia – National Identification Card – Back – 2008
  • Belgium National Identification Card Back 2003 – 2010
• The following document types were added to the document encyclopaedia:
  • United Kingdom – Security Industry Authority Card – Front
  • United Kingdom – Age Identification Card Civilian Card (SIA) – Front
  • United Kingdom – Proof of Age Card – Front (SIA) – 2016
  • Hungary – National Identification Card – Front

V5.4.9 – 2018-07-17:

General changes:

• Updated UK address corrector to apply corrected value into “AddressFull” field.
• Enhanced Digital Tampering Detector.
• Fixed tolerance level policy issue.

Document specific changes:

• Enhanced the following documents:
  • Austria – Driving Licence – Front – 2013
  • Austria – National Passport – Front – 1996
  • Austria – E – Passport – Front – 2014
  • Brazil – National Passport – Front – 2015
  • Czech – Driving License – Front – 2004 – 2013
  • Czech – National Identification Card – Back – 2005
  • Czech – National Identification Card – Front – 2012 – 2014
  • Denmark – Health Card – Front 2008 – 2015
  • France – National Identification Card – Back – 1994
  • Slovakia – National Identification Card – Front – 2008
  • Slovakia – National Identification Card – Back – 2008
  • Slovakia – National Identification Card – Front – 2012
• The following document types were added to the document encyclopaedia:
  • Argentina – National Passport – Front – 1996
  • Brazil – National Passport – Front – 2015
  • Bulgaria – National Identification Card – Back – 2009
  • Bulgaria – National Identification Card – Back – 2010
  • Kazakhstan – National Passport – Front – 2007
  • Myanmar – National Passport – Front – 2010

V5.4.7 – 2018-04-25:

Document specific changes:

• Enhanced the following documents:
  • Denmark – Health Card – Front 2008 – 2015

V5.4.5 – 2018-04-13:

General changes:

• Supported Tolerance level policy. Enable customise authentication level per country and document type.
• Document specific changes:
  • Enhanced the following documents:
• France – National Identification Card – Front – 1994
  • France – National Identification Card – Back – 1994
  • Australia – New South Wales – Driving License – Front – 2002
  • Australia – Tasmania – Provisional Driving License – Front – 2007
  • Australia – Victoria – Learner Permit – Front – 2000 – 2009
  • Australia – Victoria – Probationary Driving License – Front – 2000 – 2009
  • Australia – Victoria – Learner Driving License – Front – 2000
  • Australia – Victoria – Heavy Driving License – Front – 2009
  • Australia – Western Australia – Heavy Driving License – Front – 2014
  • Australia – Western Australia – Learner Driving License – Front – 2014
  • Australia – Tasmania – Driving License – Front – 2007
  • Australia – New South Wales – Photo Card – Front – 2005
  • Australia – Victoria – Driving License – Front – 2000
  • Australia – New South Wales – Driving License – Front – 2007
  • Australia – Tasmania – Heavy Driving License – Front – 2007
  • Australia – Victoria – Probationary Driving License – Front – 2000
  • Australia – Western Australia – Photo Card – Front – 2014
  • Australia – Victoria – Heavy Driving License – Front – 2000 – 2009
  • Australia – Victoria – Driving License – Front – 2001 – 2009
  • Australia – Victoria – Learner Driving License – Front – 2000
  • Australia – National Passport – Front – 2009
  • Denmark – Driving License – Front – 1997
• The following document types were added to the document encyclopaedia:
  • Australia – Tasmania – Learner Driving License – Front 2015
  • Australia – Tasmania – Learner Driving License – Front – 2007
  • Australia – Victoria – Working With Children Check Card – Front 2004
  • Australia – Tasmania – Provisional Driving License – Front 2015
  • Australia – Tasmania – Heavy Vehicle Driving License – Front 2015
  • Australia – Western Australia – Driving License – Front – 2014
  • Australia – Tasmania – Driving License – Front 2015
  • Australia – Western Australia – Driving License – Front – 2014
  • Denmark – Driving License – Front – 2013
  • Denmark – Driving License – Front – 1996
  • Denmark – Health Card – Front 2008 – 2015

V5.4.3 – 2018-03-13:

General changes:

• Added new Authentication check to detect Digital Tampering in input image file.
• Added the ability to customize some configurations by request.
• Added support of processing PDF files (Currently limited to first page).

Document specific changes:

• Enhanced the following documents:
  • France – National Identification Card – Front – 1994
• The following document types were added to the document encyclopaedia:
  • Lebanon – National Passport – Front – 2003
  • Mauritius – National Passport – Front – 2005
  • Philippines – National Passport – Front – 2010 – 2012
  • Philippines – National Passport – Front – 2007
  • Sweden – Travel Permit – Front – 2006
  • Sweden – Travel Permit – Front – 2008
  • Thailand – National Passport – Front – 2012
  • United Arabic Emirates – National Passport – Front – 2004

V5.3.3 – 2017-12-11:

Document specific changes:

• Enhanced the following documents:
  • France – National Identification Card – Back – 1994
  • Mexico – National Passport – Front – 2001 – 2002 – 2008 – 2012
  • Belgium – National Identification Card – Front – 2005
  • France – National Identification Card – Front – 1994
  • United Kingdom – Residence Permit – Front – 2008
• The following document types were added to the document encyclopaedia:
  • Georgia – National Passport – Front – 2006
  • German – Temporary Passport – Front – 2004
  • Italy – National Passport – Front – 2003
  • South Africa – National Passport – Front – 2000 – 2002 – 2007
  • Belgium National Identification Card Back 2003 – 2010

V5.3.2.239 – 2017-11-14:

General changes:

• Added support for PDF-417 barcode reading for the following Document types:
  • United States – Driving Licences – Back Side.
  • Canada – Driving Licences – Back Side.

V5.3.1.155 – 2017-10-26:

• Reactivate x86 platforms support.

V5.3.1.536 – 2017-10-17:

Document specific changes:

• Enhanced the following documents:
  • Poland – National Identification Card – Front – 2013
  • Slovakia – National Identification Card – Front – 2008
  • Brazil – National Passport – Front – 2015
  • Canada – National Passport – Front – 2010
  • Canada – National Passport – Front – 2013
  • Taiwan – National Passport – Front – 2008
  • Belgium – National Identification Card – Front – 2005
  • Ireland – Learner Driving License – Front
  • Jordan – National Passport – Front – 2007
  • Mexico – National Passport – Front – 2008
  • Romania – National Identification Card – Front – 1998
• The following document types were added to the document encyclopaedia:
  • Turkey – National Identification Card – Front – 2016.
  • Turkey – National Identification Card – Back – 2016.
  • Turkey – Driving Licence – Front -2016.
  • Turkey – Work Permit – 2016.
  • Mexico – Electoral Card – Front – 2000.
  • Mexico – Electoral Card – Back – 2000.
  • Mexico – Electoral Card – Front – 2004.
  • Mexico – Electoral Card – Back – 2004.
  • Mexico – Electoral Card – Front – 2008.
  • Mexico – Electoral Card – Back – 2008.

V5.2.1.236 – 2017-08-16:

General changes:

• Add Authentication levels which control how strict the library authentication is. To enable leveling please add this key to library config file:
  • for Default level:<add key=”AuthenticationLevel” value=”Default”/>
  • for Medium level:<add key=”AuthenticationLevel” value=”Medium”/>
  • for Strict level:<add key=”AuthenticationLevel” value=”Strict”/>
• Add new Authentication check for UK document number check digit.
• Enhance extraction accuracy for data from MRZ.
• Make document validity range stricter for document out of circulation.
• Increase severity for cross reference Authentication on ICAO compliant Identity documents.
• Fix an issue in FirstName cross reference Authentication for German documents.
• Add the ability to customize authentication level when using IDES web service on request level.
• Make portrait photo presence authentication check stricter.

Document specific changes:

• Enhanced document recognition and field extraction for the following documents:
  • Switzerland – Driving License – Front – 2004
  • Russia – Driving License – Front
  • Germany – National Identification Card – 1995-2007
  • Ireland – Learner Driving License – Front

V5.1.87 – 2017-05-23:

General changes:

• Updated visible patterns authentication final decision algorithm.
• Update to portrait photo detection validation check.

Document specific changes:

• Enhanced document recognition, field extraction, and validation for the following documents:
  • France – Driving License – Front – 2013
  • France – National Identification Card – Back – 1994
  • France – National Identification Card – Back – 2000
  • France – National Passport – Front – 1998
  • France – E – Passport – Front – 2008
  • France – Emergency Passport – Front – 2005
  • France – Residence Permit – Front – 2002
  • France – Residence Permit – Front
  • France – Residence Permit – Back
  • France – National Identification Card – Front – 1994

V5.1.86 – 2017-05-17:

General changes:

• Fixed a memory leak issue related to processing blank images.
• Optimized portrait photo detection and localization check to reduce error rate, especially with ICAO compliant documents.
• Enhanced visible patterns authentication check..

Document specific changes:

• Fixed the metadata of Czech – National Identification Card type.
• Enhanced the recognition, field extraction, and authentication for documents with non-ICAO compliant MRZ format in Germany, Spain, France, and Italy

V5.1.85.223 – 2017-05-03:

General changes:

• Add an option to install IDES on a different directory, however, there are two small static files which can’t be moved from the default directory, because they belong to a legacy module, which are:
  • “C:\ProgramData\IDScan\alpha201.xml”: 1050 KB
  • “C:\ProgramData\IDScan\Filler16.xml”: 84 KB
• Integrated a new segmentation engine which will affect the extraction and validation of all document types.
• Various bug fixes
• Enhanced validation details presentation to be more consistent across different document types, and to reflect the high-level result.
• Enhance date value extractor.
  • Document specific changes:
• Enhanced classification, extraction, and authentication for all Czech Republic documents.

V5.1.83.266 – 2017-02-23:

General changes:

• Fixed an issue which causes the document to be cropped wrongly if the recognition fails, and generally enhanced document cropping / extraction for camera captured images.
• Enhanced the logic and the presentation of some validation checks, including, MRZ check digits, proprietary check digits / cross-reference checks for specific documents, and checks related to the document type inherent characteristics (first issue date, min, and max age, and maximum expiry date…).
• Enhanced portrait face image detection check.
• Added more correction layers to account for diacritics, especially for names in Czech documents.
• Added a license key field into the installer of IDES, so that it can be passed during installation, the license key can be set / updated from IDES config file if needed after the installation, the file is located by default in this path: “C:\Program Files (x86)\IDscan\IDES\IDScan.DocExpRecoWinSvcHost.exe.config”, and the configuration key name is: LicenceKey, the key can also be set from the command line during installation if needed for automated deployment scenarios, this is an example of a command to install the library with a key: msiexec /i “IDscan Document Expert System Installer.msi” /qn KEY_VALUE=<KEY VALUE HERE>.

Document specific changes:

• Enhanced date fields extraction from all UK passports.
• Fixed an issue which could result duplicate validation details with some document types.
• Enhanced extraction of UK driving license document number field.
• Substantial improvements on all Czech document types from all aspects (recognition, data extraction, and validation).
• Definition of new types:
  • Estonia – National Identification Card – Front – 2011
  • Finland – National Passport – 2006
  • Finland – Passport – 1997
  • Liechtenstein – National Identification Card – Front -1995
  • Luxembourg – National Passport -2006
  • Malta – National Passport – 2005
  • Malta – National Passport – 2008
  • Slovakia – National Passport – 1995
  • Slovakia – National Passport — 2005
  • Slovenia – National Passport – 2006
  • Spain – National Passport – 2003
• General improvement on the following types:
  • Estonia – National Passport – 2007 – 2010
  • Slovakia – National Passport – 2005
  • Slovakia – National Passport – 2014
  • Spain – National Passport – 2008
  • Germany – National Passport
  • Luxembourg – National Passport – 2006
  • Malta – National Passport – 2008
  • Netherlands – Travel Permit
  • Slovenia – National Passport – 2006

V5.1.82.134 – 2017-02-17:

General changes:

• Accounted for different document number formats for driving licenses issued in Northern Ireland (by the DVA and not the DVLA).
• Partially fixed an issue which causes a duplication in validation details.
• Enhancements on many UK Driving Licenses from recognition, extraction, and validation perspectives.
• Added licensing functionality, there is a built in license key which will cause the library to ask for a new license key on a specific date, the license key can be set from IDES config file, which is located by default in this path: “C:\Program Files (x86)\IDscan\IDES\IDScan.DocExpRecoWinSvcHost.exe.config”, and the configuration key name is: LicenceKey.

Document specific changes:

• The following document types were improved:
  • Denmark – National Passport
  • Switzerland – Driving License – Front – 2004
  • United Kingdom – Driving License – Front – 2007
  • United Kingdom – Jersey – Driving License – Front – 2007
  • Belgium – National Identification Card – Front – 2005
  • Switzerland – National Identification Card – Front – 2003
  • Brazil – National Passport – 2015
  • United Kingdom – Driving License – Front – 1999

V5.1.81.413 – 2017-01-23:

General changes:

• Enhanced document extraction (Isolating the document from the background) for passports.
• Enhanced First Name extraction for German Passports.

The following document types were improved generally:

• United Kingdom – Driving License – Front – 1999
• Slovakia – Passport – 2014
• Slovakia – National Passport – 2005
• Netherlands – Travel Permit & Passport
• Brazil – National Passport – 2015
• Czech Republic – EU Driver’s License – Front – 2005
• Czech Republic – National Identification Card – Front – 2005
• Czech Republic – National Identification Card Back 2005
• Czech Republic – National Identification Card – Front – 2012
• Czech Republic – National Identification Card Back 2012

V5.1.79.319 – 2017-01-20:

• Enhancements on the camera captured images recognition.
• Fixed a bug affecting the validation of UK driving licenses, related to date ranges.
• Fixed a bug in recognising the type of MRZ in the document.
• Better logic in cross checking very long names, and names with non-Latin charsets.
• The time of the first scan is reduced.
• Better handling for Addresses with 3 lines on UK Driving Licenses.
• General enhancements on some ICAO compliant passports & IDs and added more validation checks.
• Differentiate very similar documents even when scanning the backside only (National ID vs Residence Permit).
• Included stateless person ISO code in valid / recognised nationality codes.
• Added more metadata to some document types which enables more validations to be applicable.

Document specific changes:

• The following document types were improved generally:
  • Albania – National Passport
  • Australia National Passport 2005
  • Australia National Passport 2009
  • Austria – National Identification Card – Front – 2002
  • Azerbaijan National Passport 2012
  • Belgium – National Identification Card – Front – 2002
  • Belgium – National Passport – 2004
  • Brazil – National Passport – 2015
  • Canada – National Passport – 2010
  • Costa Rica – National Passport
  • Czech – National Identification Card – Front – 2012
  • Czech Republic – Driver’s License – Front – 2001
  • Denmark – Aliens Passport – 2006
  • Ecuador – National Passport – 2003
  • El Salvador – National Passport
  • Estonia – Driving License – Front – 2004
  • Estonia – National Passport – 2007-2010
  • France – E – Passport – 2008
  • France – National Passport – 1998
  • Germany – Passport
  • Germany – National Identification Card – Back
  • Germany – National Identification Card – Front – 1995
  • Germany – National Identification Card – Front – 2010
  • Germany – National Passport
  • Greece – National Passport – 2006
  • Guinea Bissau – National Passport – 2008
  • Iran – National Passport – 2004
  • Japan – National Passport
  • Japan – National Passport – 2007
  • Jordan National Passport 2007
  • Kazakhstan National Identification Card Front 2014
  • Kenya – National Passport – 2008
  • Latvia National Passport – (2007)
  • Malta – Driving License – Front – 2001
  • Mexico – National Passport – 2008
  • Netherlands – E – Passport
  • Netherlands – National Identification Card – Front – 2006
  • Netherlands – National Passport
  • Netherlands Passport
  • Nigeria – National Passport – 1997
  • Nigeria National Passport 2007
  • Pakistan – National Identification Card – Back
  • Papua New Guinea – National Passport
  • Poland – National Passport – 2001
  • Portugal – Citizen Card – Back – 2007
  • Portugal – National Identification Card – Front
  • Portugal – National Identification Card – Front
  • Romania – National Passport – 2010
  • Russia – National Passport
  • Rwanda – National Passport – 2004
  • Serbia – Passport
  • Slovenia – National Passport
  • Spain – Alien Residence Id Card – Front
  • Spain – National Identification Card – Back
  • Sweden – National Identification Card – Front – 2005
  • Taiwan – National Passport – 2008
  • United Kingdom – Age Identification Card Civilian Card – Front
  • United Kingdom – Driver Card – Front
  • United Kingdom – Driving License – Front – 2007
  • United Kingdom – Provisional Driving License – Front
  • United Kingdom – Residence Permit – Front – 2006
  • United Kingdom – Travel Permit – Front – 2002
  • United Kingdom – Visa Type C Version 3 – Front
  • United States – Visa – Front
  • Zambia – National Passport 1999
• Field extraction improvements on:
  • Angola – National Passport
  • Nigeria – National Passport – 1997
  • Netherlands – National Identification Card – Front – 2006
  • Netherlands – National Identification Card – Front – 2011
• Validation improvements on:
  • Bahamas – Passport – Front
  • Brunei Darussalam – National Passport – 2008
  • Botswana – National Passport
  • Chile – National Passport- 2002
  • Kyrgyzstan – National Passport- 2004
  • Mexico – National Passport – 2008
  • Qatar – National Passport – 2008
  • Uganda – National Passport – 2002
• Recognition (classification) improvements on:
  • Angola – National Passport
  • Costa Rica – National Passport – 2006
  • Ecuador – National Passport – 2003
  • France – National Identification Card – Front – 1994
  • Kenya – National Passport
  • Nigeria National Passport 2007
  • Senegal – National Passport – 2008
  • United Kingdom – National Passport – 1988
  • Taiwan National Passport

V5.1.77 – 2016-11-10:

• The following document types were added to the document encyclopedia:
  • Czech Republic – EU Driver’s License – Front – 2005
  • Czech Republic – Driver’s License – Front – 2001
  • Czech Republic – National Passport – 2007
• The following document types were improved:
  • Germany – Driving License – Front
  • Estonia – Driving License – Front – 2004
  • France – Residence Permit – Front – 2002
  • Italy – Driving License – Front – 2000
  • Italy – Photo Card – Back
  • Japan – National Passport
  • Poland – National Identification Card – Front – 2015
  • Russia – National Passport
  • El Salvador – National Passport
  • Slovakia – National Identification Card – Back – 2008
  • Taiwan – National Passport – 2002
  • Armenia – Driving License – Front – 2002
  • Finland – Driving License – Front – 2004
  • Finland – National Identification Card – Front – 2004
  • Hungary – Driving License – Front – 2002
  • United Kingdom – Driving License – Front – 2007
  • United Kingdom – National Passport – 2006
  • Romania – National Passport – 2006
  • Czech – National Passport – Front
  • Australian passports and certificate of identity.
• Logging Image properties to contextual log
• Exclude Travel permits from Passport type

V5.1.76 – 2016-10-31:

• These document types are now supported:
  • Canada – National Passport – 2013
  • Brazil – National Passport – 2015
  • Slovenia – National Identification Card – Front – 2000
  • Slovenia – National Identification Card – Back – 2000
  • Yemen – National Passport
  • Guinea-Bissau – National Passport – 2008
• These document types are now supported:
  • United Kingdom – National Passport – 2006
  • United Kingdom – National Passport – 2015
  • France – E-Passport – 2008
  • Canada – National Passport – 2010
  • Austria – National Passport
  • Spain – National Passport
  • Sweden – National Passport
  • Greece – National Passport – 2006
  • Lithuania – National Passport – 2003
  • Lithuania – National Passport – 2008
  • Japan – National Passport
  • New Zealand – National Passport
  • Singapore – National Passport
  • United Kingdom – Full Driving Licence – 2007
  • United Kingdom – Full Driving Licence – 2012
  • United Kingdom – Jersey – Driving License – Front – 2007
  • Taiwan – National Passport – 2008
  • Congo – National Passport – 2009
  • Ethiopia – National Passport – 2004
  • United Kingdom – British Overseas Citizen Passport – 2006
  • Panama – National Passport – 2010
  • Cameroon – National Passport – 2006
  • Congo – National Passport – 2009
  • Cote Divoire – Passport
  • Iceland – National Passport – 2006
  • Jordan – National Passport – 2007
  • Kenya – National Passport
  • Tanzania – National Passport
  • Senegal – National Passport – 2008 dd. Italy – Photo Card – Front
  • Cyprus – National Identification Card – Front – 2008 ff. Finland – Personal Information Card – Front – 2005
  • Netherlands – National Identification Card – Front – 2011 hh. Bulgaria – National Identification Card – Front – 2010
  • France – National Identification Card – 1994 jj. Romania – National Identification Card – 1998 kk. Portugal – Citizen Card – Back – 2007
  • Australia – Victoria – Driving License – Front – 2001-2009
• Enhancement for Image Resolution Check to pass lower resolution but good quality images
• Image Resolution Check is added to Validation Details rather than only in Observations
• Improvement to processing speed for ICAO documents captured by Cameras

V5.1.72.413 – 2016-10-17:

• The following document types were improved:
  • Poland – National Identification Card – 2013

V5.1.72.0 – 2016-10-03:

• The following document types were improved:
  • France – National Identification Card – 1994
  • France – National Identification Card – 1994 (Back)
  • United States – Passport – 2006
  • United States – Emergency Passport – 2006
  • Romania – Passport – 2006
  • Slovenia – National Identification Card – 2000
  • Hong Kong – National Identification Card – 2003
  • France – Emergency Passport – 2005
  • Austria – National Identification Card – 2002
• Improvements to authentication of passports
  • The following document types were improved:
    • United Kingdom – Passport – 2015
  • Fix an issue in ePassports authentication.
  • The following document types were added to the document encyclopedia:
    • El Salvador – Vehicle Registration Card
    • France – Emergency Passport – 2005
  • The following document types were improved:
    • France – National Identification Card – 1994
    • United Kingdom – Civilian Card
    • France – Passport – 2006/2008
    • United States – Passport – 1998
  • The following document types were added to the document encyclopedia:
    • China – National Identification Card
  • The following document types were improved:
    • United Kingdom – Full Driving Licence – 1999
    • United Kingdom – Full Driving Licence – 2007
    • United Kingdom – Wales – Full Driving Licence – 2007
    • United Kingdom – Full Driving Licence – 2012
    • United Kingdom – Wales – Full Driving Licence – 2012
    • United Kingdom – Full Driving Licence – 2014
    • United Kingdom – Full Driving Licence – 2015
    • United Kingdom – Provisional Driving Licence – 1999
    • United Kingdom – Provisional Driving Licence – 2007
    • United Kingdom – Provisional Driving Licence – 2012
    • United Kingdom – Provisional Driving Licence – 2014
    • United Kingdom – Provisional Driving Licence – 2015
  • Enhancing the speed of detection of documents containing MRZ
  • Enhancement of text detection for documents with non-stable layouts
  • Fixes to some cases of detection and extraction of documents not working

V5.1.63 – 2016-06-14:

• Enhanced Address Extraction for the following German Documents:
  • Germany-National Identification Card 2004
  • Germany-National Identification Card 2007
  • Germany-National Identification Card 2010

V5.1.62 – 2016-06-03:

• Enhance the friendly name for the most of the types.
  • Add Ireland passport card 2015 front and back.
  • Enhance the validation for Panama passport.

V5.1.60 – 2016-05-27:

• Enhance the Validation for United Kingdom-Driving License 1999.
• Enhance the authentication for many types:
  • Armenia passports
  • Estonia driving license
  • Finland driving license 2004
  • Finland – Driving License – 2007
  • Ireland – Passport – 2000
  • Sweden – Driving License – 2008
  • Sweden – Passport – 2005
  • Uganda – Passport – 2002
  • Rwanda – Passport – 2004
  • United Nations – Passport
  • Mexico – Passport
  • Luxembourg – National Identification Card – 2004
  • Qatar – Passport – 2008
  • Fuji – Passport
  • Cameroon – Passport
  • Chile – Passport
  • Botswana – Passport
  • Bahrain – Passport

V5.1.59 – 2016-05-25:

• Fixed a certain issue for handling of invalid input image if sent to the library.
• Add a preliminary interface for reporting document support in library.
• Enhance the pre-processing of MRZ letters before validating check digits.
• Enhance the visible authentication checks for China passports, most of British documents and Russian passports.
• Enhance the validation for UK driving license 1999, GBR driving license 2006, Slovakia passports, South Africa passport, Angola passport, and Zimbabwe passport.
• Enhance the recognition for Vietnam passport 2007, USA passport, Uganda passport 2002, Ireland passport 2006, Ireland passport and emergency passport, and UK residence permit 2004
• Added new document types:
  • Kosovo passport 2013.
  • Morocco National ID (Front and Back).

V5.1.58 – 2016-05-18:

• Enhance classification for United Kingdom Wales Driving License 1999.
• Enhance the classification for Finland-National Identification Card.
• Enhance the validation and extraction for Germany-Passport, Denmark-Passport.
• Enhance the validation for Rumanian identification card 1998.
• Enhance the classification for Portugal identification card 2007, Hungarian identification card, and British Passport 1998 and 2006.
• Enhance the classification for Congo passport 2009, Panama passport 2010, Czech identification card 2012 and Finland identification card.

V5.1.57 – 2016-05-16:

• Fix an issue with the validation for GBR driving License 1999.
• Enhance the classification between the UK passports and UK travel Permit, and between UK passport and CYM, MSR passports.
• Enhance the classification for Portugal Identification Card, Hungarian National Identification Card, Australian driving license, Romanian identification card, Turkish identification card the front and back side.
• Enhance the validation for Romanian National Identification Card.
• Support non-ISO standards Zimbabwe and Japan.
• Enhance the extraction for South Africa (ZAF) Driver License (1995).
• Adding new documents to the library:
  • Italy identification card, Paper and Data Page.
  • Spain – Alien Residence Identification Card.
  • Switzerland – Travel Permit – Front – 2000
  • Switzerland – National Passport
  • Switzerland – Residence Permit – Front
  • Switzerland – National Identification Card – Back – 2003
  • Switzerland – National Identification Card – Front – 2003
  • Switzerland – Driving License – Back – 2004.
  • Switzerland – Driving License – Front- 2004.
  • Albania – Driving License
  • Armenia – Driving License
  • Spain – Driving License
  • Estonia – Driving License
  • Finland – Driving License
  • Japan – Driving License
  • Latvia – Driving License
  • Malta – Driving License
  • Portugal – Driving License
  • Slovenia – Driving License
  • Add Albania – National Identification Card
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina – National Identification Card
  • Hong Kong – National Identification Card
  • Poland – Residence Permit
  • Serbia – National Identification Card
  • Albania – Passport
  • Armenia – Passport
  • Canada – Passport
  • Spain – Passport
  • Iraq – Passport
  • Mexico – Passport
  • South Africa – Passport
  • United Kingdom Middlesex University card Student front and back.

V5.1.56 – 2016-05-11:

• Updating the address format of the Australian Driving License and Keypass Proof of Age Card along with updating the document number format in the Driving License.

V5.1.55 – 2016-05-11:

• Enhance the extraction for many Australian types.
• Remove the impurity corrector from dates to some Australian Driving Licenses.
• Enhancing the segments allocation of DocumentNumber fields of Australian Driving License and address of the National Identification card.

V5.1.54 – 2016-05-09:

• Enhancing the Hybrid corrector in MRZ based documents.
• Enhancing check digits calculation operations.
• General enhancements for the date corrector, and enhancing date segments for many documents.

V5.1.53 – 2016-05-02:

• Enhance the extraction and the validation for Italian and Japanese passports

V5.1.52 – 2016-04-12:

• Fixed a certain issue where MRZ to be checked mandatory in some validators if the document is ICAO.
• Enhance the classification for most of the Austrian types.
• Support Spain identification card 2015.

V5.1.48 – 2016-04-06:

• Fixed a certain issue in the MRZ read operation, and the classification of ICAO documents.
• Enhance the extraction for most Singaporean and Malaysian types.
• Enhance the Portrait Photo Check Validator.
• Tune the MRZ Scale ratio check validator.
• Supporting the following document types:
  • Switzerland Driving Licence – (2004)
  • Switzerland Residence Permit – Front – (2008)
  • Switzerland Travel Document – (2000) Release Notes
  • Switzerland Passport 2010
  • Switzerland National Identification Card (2003)
  • Hungary Driving Licence (2002)
  • Hungary Driving Licence – Back
  • Hungary Driving Licence (2004)
  • Hungary Identification Card
  • Hungary Identification Card – Back
  • Hungary Passport – 2006
  • Hungary Passport – 2012
• General bug fixes.

V5.1.46 – 2016-03-25:

• Enhancing the extraction for Russian Federation Passport.
• Enhancing the validation for the types: Russian passport, UK Drivers Licence.
• Supporting the Irish Drivers Licence.

V5.1.45 – 2016-03-24:

• Improving ICAO scale ratio check.
• Enhancing the extraction of the fields DocumentNumber, FirstName, LastName, BirthPlace and AddressCity for the following documents:
  • Back of German ID card.
  • German Passport
• Implement a new DPI validation check.
• Enhance the classification of the UK passports and UK travel permit.
• Supporting the following new types:
  • United States Texas Driving License
  • United States Alabama – National Identification Card – Under 21_-_((2005))
  • United States – Alaska – National Identification Card – 2003
  • United States – Alaska – National Identification Card – Under 21 – 2004
  • United States – Arizona – National Identification Card – 2001
  • United States – Arizona – National Identification Card – Under 21 – 2001
  • United States – California – National Identification Card – Under 21 – 1997
  • United States – California – National Identification Card
  • United States – California – National Identification Card – Under 21 -2002
  • United States – California – National Identification Card – 2010
  • United States – California – National Identification Card – Under 21 – 2010
  • United States – Colorado – National Identification Card – 2004
  • United States – Colorado – National Identification Card Under 21 – 2004
  • United States – Connecticut – National Identification Card Under 21 – 2002
  • United States – Connecticut – National Identification Card – 2009
  • United States – Connecticut – National Identification Card Under 21 – 2009
  • United States – Delaware – National Identification Card Under 21 – 2001
  • United States – Delaware – National Identification Card – 2003
  • United States – District Of Columbia – National Identification Card – Under 21 – 2003
  • United States – District Of Columbia – National Identification Card – 2007
  • United States – Florida – National Identification Card
  • United States – Florida – National Identification Card – Under 21
  • United States – Georgia – National Identification Card – 2007
  • United States – Georgia – National Identification Card – 2010
  • United States – Georgia – National Identification Card – Under 21 – 2010
  • United States – Hawaii – National Identification Card – 2005
  • United States – Hawaii – Identification Certificate – 2005
  • United States – Idaho – National Identification Card – 2005
  • United States – Illinois – National Identification Card – 2000
  • United States – Illinois – National Identification Card – 2007
  • United States – Illinois – National Identification Card – Under 21 – 2007
  • United States – Indiana – National Identification Card – (1999)
  • United States – Indiana – National Identification Card – (2010)
  • United States – Iowa – National Identification Card – (2005)
  • United States – Iowa – National Identification Card Under 21 – (2010)
  • United States – Kansas – National Identification Card – (2004)
  • United States – Kentucky – National Identification Card – (2004)
  • United States – Kentucky – National Identification Card Under 21 – (2004)
  • United States – Louisiana – National Identification Card – (2001)
  • United States – Maine – National Identification Card Under 21 – (1999)
  • United States – Massachusetts – National Identification Card – (2004)
  • United States – Massachusetts – National Identification Card Under 21 – (2004)
  • United States – Massachusetts – National Identification Card – (2010)
  • United States – Michigan – National Identification Card Under 21 – (1999)
  • United States – Michigan – National Identification Card – (2001)
  • United States – Michigan – National Identification Card – (2011)
  • United States – Minnesota – National Identification Card – (2004)
  • United States – Mississippi – National Identification Card – (2001)
  • United States – Missouri – National Identification Card – (2003)
  • United States Passport

V5.1.42 – 2016-03-08:

• Fix a memory leak that was happening within the specialised pre-processing stage for the old style German ID card back and was causing the library service to stop.
• Improved concurrent performance by optimising CPU utilisation.

V5.1.41 – 2016-03-02:

• Enhancing the performance of processing Germany – National Identification Cards
• Enhancing the performance of German Address Correction

V5.1.40 – 2016-02-29:

• Enhanced the extraction of the fields DocumentNumber, IssueDate, IssuingLocation, BirthPlace, NationalityName, AddressUnitNumber from the following documents:
  • Malaysian Passport
  • Malaysian ID
  • Singaporean NRIC
  • Singapore Passport
• Adding support for recognizing the following document types:
  • Malaysian Driving License 2014
• Enhanced Singaporean address extraction and separation.
• Fixed a certain issue in the Singaporean Employment Pass where in some instances of this Document, the spacing between characters is not consistent.
• Fixed an intermittent issue related to the validation of the Malaysian Passport.
• Enhance the extraction for Name in Malaysian ID.