Release v1.12.0 -01 Oct 2018 and older – GBG IDscan Documentation

Release v1.12.0 -01 Oct 2018 and older

v1.12.0 (01 October 2018):

RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS

  • New group “image_quality_checks” to contain quality assessment checks
    • Possible values of good, bad and undetermined
    • Group includes checks Low Resolution Check, Blur and Glare checks
  • New Low Resolution image quality check added. Sample app updated to demonstrate usage of this check to give better image capture feedback.
  • Enhancements to extraction accuracy for Danish Documents.
  • General enhancements to recognition accuracy.
  • Diacritics extraction for Latin-based languages.
  • General enhancements to date extraction accuracy.
  • Support for resource hot swapping.

 Version v1.10.0 (5 June 2018):

RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS

  • The type of the unrecognized A4 documents will be “unknown”.
  • Region added to the detailed authentication check results.

Version v1.9.0 (11 May 2018):

RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS

  • Exposed digital tampering heat map in additional image collection on the document.
  • Enhanced the extraction accuracy for UK driving licences.

Version v1.8.0 (27 April 2018):

RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS

  • Enhanced the extraction accuracy.
  • Added the applied tolerance level value to the output.
  • New authentication check added to detect digital tampering.

Version v1.7.0 (11 April 2018):

RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS

  • Support for authentication Tolerance levels
    •  Strict, Medium andDefault modes available.

Version v1.6.0 (29 March 2018):

SUPPORTED DOCUMENT TYPES:

  • United Kingdom – Full Driving Licence – 1999            
  • United Kingdom – Full Driving Licence – 2007            
  • United Kingdom – 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
  • United Kingdom – National Passport – Front – 2006
  • United Kingdom – National Passport – Front – 2010
  • United Kingdom – National Passport – Front – 2015
  • ICAO-Compliant Passports  

RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS

  • A new public API is introduced: disposeSharedInstance(). This function should be called when the library is not needed anymore. Please check sample app for an example
  • A new improved document stream processing logic is implemented in the sample app. It is strongly recommended to adopt this logic in client apps to improve extraction accuracy.
  • Two new image quality checks are added: Glare Check and Blur Check. Sample app is updated to demonstrate how they can be used to provide feedback to user to help them capture a better image
  • The size of the package is reduced by about 30%
  • New validation check added for UK Driving Licenses to check Document Number checksum
  • Improved frame processing time by around 20%
  • Improved capture validation to ensure image is good quality and produces accurate results. This might extend overall capture time until the issues with capture conditions are addressed by the user

BUG FIXES

•     Fixed an issue where some validation checks provide an empty value for the description of the check

Version v1.3.12 (28 September 2017):  

  • New Validations Added:
    • Semantic Checks o MRZ Length Checks o MRZ Placement Checks o MRZ Country Code Check o Field Format Check
    • Data Range Validity Check
  • Improvements to document recognition
  • Fixed recognition issues on certain document orientations

Version v1.3.8 (19 May 2017) 

• Optimisation of memory caching by freeing up resources after the document processing is finished 

Version v1.3.4 (10 April 2017) 

  • Enhancing postcode correction for United Kingdom – Driving License documents 
  • Adding MRZ Check Digit validation checks for ICAO-compliant passports 
  • Adding Presence validation checks for United Kingdom – Driving Licenses 
  • Adding Cross Match validation checks for United Kingdom – Driving Licenses 
  • Improved recognition and extraction accuracy for United Kingdom – Driving Licenses 

Version v1.1.24 (16 January 2017) 

  • Enhanced the extraction of date fields (Birth Date, Issue Date and Expiry Date) from United Kingdom – Provisional Driving Licence – 2012document type 

Version v1.1.22 (19 December 2016) 

  • New Feature: Extracted Fields now provide the coordinates of their locations of extracted document image. 
  • Added support for North Ireland driving licenses

Version v1.1.20 (13 December 2016) 

  • Fixed an issue that caused document not to be cropped (image de-skew operation) well in some cases 

Version v1.1.19 (21 November 2016) 

  • Improvement to Document Number and Personal Number extraction for ICAO passports –  Few stability improvements 

Version v1.1.17 (01 November 2016) 

  • Fixed some issues that caused the application to crash in some edge cases 

Version v1.1.14 (03 October 2016): 

  • Fixed an issue that caused document processing to be interrupted in some edge cases 

Version v1.1.12 (22 September 2016): 

  • Title (Mr, Miss, Dr …etc.) will be extracted to a separate field named “Title” in ExtractedFields list. 
  • Improved Smart Capture speed
  • Improvements to logging 

Version v1.1.11 (26 August 2016): 

  • Enhanced Extraction quality for these fields in UK Driving Licences: 
  • First Name 
  • Last Name 
  • Document Number 
  • Address 
  • Birth Place 
  • Support of removing the Title (MR, MISS, DR) from First Name –  Better OCR model which also increased the size 

Version v1.1.8 (19 August 2016): 

  • Enhanced Extraction (OCR) quality for these fields in UK Driving Licences 
  • First Name 
  • Last Name 
  • Document Number 
  • Address 
  • Birth Date 
  • Issue Date 
  • Expiry Date 
  • Birth Place 
  • Added extraction of Issuing Country Name and Nationality Name for ICAO Passports 
  • Added blurry image detection to capture only sharp image frames that result in good quality extraction 
  • Added support for normalisation of Date Fields. Date fields now are always output in ISO 8601 standard format (yyyy-MM-dd). 
  • Enhanced accessibility support in the Sample application 

Version 1.1.2 (13 July 2016): 

  • Added the functionality of Data Extraction from supported UK driving licence documents (OCR) 
  • Added the functionality of Recognition and Data Extraction (OCR) from the MRZ area from ICAO-compliant Passports 
  • SDK now provides two sets of API interfaces: 
  • High Level API: For ease of use it provides its integrated camera capture UI. But this UI is limited in the ways it can be customised. This API is targeted for smaller experienced teams. 
  • Low Level API: For more control over the process and full customisation of the UI elements. 
  • Provided a sample application source code to demonstrate the Low-level API functionality along with a fully functional camera view 
  • Enhanced detection of documents in certain conditions that weren’t detected accurately 
  • Added documentation along with sample code for adjusting the level of logging of the framework 
  • Added documentation for retrieving the processing logs from the device 
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