* Find and extract text, numeric, and date information from any driver's license or identification card (Name, ID Number, Address, Gender, Signature, etc) * Includes implementation to recognize and process unstructured ID cards (i.e. unstructured forms). No template is required * Includes master templates for all fifty states in the US — templates are easily customizable to support any country, state, or agency with standardized identification cards * Finds fields with common headers such as name, address, date of birth, issuing date, expiration date, and ID number, even when the ID does not match any template * Recognize and extract driving license fields regardless of image resolution, scale, and other image generation characteristics * Advanced scanned image alignment algorithm compensates for non-linear deformations introduced by different scanners, printers, and resolutions * World-class accuracy and speed * Unique color and bitonal image recognition for scanned documents and pictures * Automatic detection and correction of driver's license orientation and skew angle * Utilize camera preview on phones and tablets for real-time driver's license recognition and processing * Enhance recognition accuracy with powerful document cleanup and preprocessing * Use regular expressions to find and validate text * Load and save master template identification information as XML for simplified storage and editing * Utilize LEADTOOLS Fast Twain to rapidly scan driving licenses and ID cards

• Template matching - Extract only specific characters from a region and ignore the rest • Character set selection - Improve accuracy by limiting results to certain letters or numbers • Auto rotate - Accurately finds correct image orientation • Noise removal - Improved for shaded regions and speckles • Error Handling - Greatly improved • Example projects - Includes C++, Visual Basic, ASP, and VB.NET • Returns coordinates of recognized words and images - Map text to original image, correcting hidden text PDF