{"id":440,"date":"2016-06-06T09:14:35","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T09:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.idepass.com\/es\/about-mrz\/"},"modified":"2016-06-06T09:14:35","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T09:14:35","slug":"about-mrz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idepass.com\/es\/about-mrz\/","title":{"rendered":"About MRZ"},"content":{"rendered":"

MRZ- Machine readable zone.<\/h1>\n

The ICAO document 9303 describes specifications common to all Machine Readable Travel Documents.<\/p>\n

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MRZ\u00a0fonts: OCR-B<\/p>\n

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  1. \u2022Machine readable passports (MRP) : 2 lines of 44 characters<\/li>\n
  2. \u2022Machine readable visas (MRV): 2 lines 44 characters, 2 lines 36 characters<\/li>\n
  3. \u2022Travel documents(ID Card\/ driver’s license): 2 lines of 36 characters, 3 lines of 30 characters<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Official travel documents(ID cards)<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \"MRZ-ID-CARD\"<\/p>\n

    Smaller documents such as identity and passport cards are usually in the TD1 size, which is 85.6 * 54.0 mm (3.37 * 2.13 in), the same size as credit cards. The data of the machine-readable zone in a TD1 size card consists of three rows of 30 characters each. The only characters used are A\u2013Z, 0\u20139 and the filler character <.<\/p>\n

    Some official travel documents are in the larger TD2 size, 105.0 * 74.0 (4.13 * 2.91 in). They have a layout of the MRZ with two rows of 36 characters each, similar to the TD3 format, but with 31 characters for the name, 7 for the personal number and one less check digit. Yet some official travel documents are in the booklet format with a TD3 identity page.<\/p>\n

    The format of the first row for TD1 (credit card size) documents is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
    Positions<\/th>\nLength<\/th>\nChars<\/th>\nMeaning<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
    1<\/td>\n1<\/td>\nalpha<\/td>\nI, A or C<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    2<\/td>\n1<\/td>\nalpha+<<\/td>\nType, This is at the discretion of the issuing state or authority, but 1\u20132 should be IP for passport cards, AC for Crew Member Certificates and V is not allowed as 2nd character. ID or I< are typically used for nationally issued ID cards<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    3\u20135<\/td>\n3<\/td>\nalpha+<<\/td>\nIssuing country or organization (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code with modifications)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    6\u201314<\/td>\n9<\/td>\nalpha+num+<<\/td>\nDocument number<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    15<\/td>\n1<\/td>\nnum+<<\/td>\nCheck digit over digits 6\u201314<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    16\u201330<\/td>\n15<\/td>\nalpha+num+<<\/td>\nOptional<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

    Machine readable passport (MRP)<\/span><\/h3>\n
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    \"mrz-mrp_image\"<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

    Passport booklets have an identity page containing the identity data. This page shall be in the TD3 size which means 125 \u00d7 88\u00a0mm (4.92 \u00d7 3.46\u00a0in).<\/p>\n

    The data of the machine-readable zone consists of two rows of 44 characters each. The only characters used are A\u2013Z, 0\u20139 and the filler character <.<\/p>\n

    The format of the first row is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
    Positions<\/th>\nLength<\/th>\nCharacters<\/th>\nMeaning<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
    1<\/td>\n1<\/td>\nalpha<\/td>\nP, indicating a passport<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    2<\/td>\n1<\/td>\nalpha+<<\/td>\nType (for countries that distinguish between different types of passports)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    3\u20135<\/td>\n3<\/td>\nalpha+<<\/td>\nIssuing country or organization (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code with modifications)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    6\u201344<\/td>\n39<\/td>\nalpha+<<\/td>\nSurname, followed by two filler characters, followed by given names. Given names are separated by single filler characters<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

    Machine-readable visas<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \"MRV\"<\/p>\n

    The ICAO Document 9303 part 7 describes machine-readable visas. They come in two different formats:<\/p>\n

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    • MRV-A – 80 mm \u00d7 120 mm (3.15 in \u00d7 4.72 in)<\/li>\n
    • MRV-B – 74 mm \u00d7 105 mm (2.91 in \u00d7 4.13 in)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      The format of the first row of the machine-readable zone is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
      Positions<\/th>\nLength<\/th>\nChars<\/th>\nMeaning<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
      1<\/td>\n1<\/td>\nalpha<\/td>\n“V”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
      2<\/td>\n1<\/td>\nalpha+<<\/td>\nType, this is at the discretion of the issuing state or authority<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
      3\u20135<\/td>\n3<\/td>\nalpha+<<\/td>\nIssuing country or organization (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code with modifications)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
      6\u201344<\/td>\n39<\/td>\nalpha+<<\/td>\nName in MRV-A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
      6\u201336<\/td>\n31<\/td>\nalpha+<<\/td>\nName in MRV-B<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

      The format of the second row is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
      Positions<\/th>\nLength<\/th>\nChars<\/th>\nMeaning<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
      1-9<\/td>\n9<\/td>\nalpha+num+<<\/td>\nPassport or Visa number<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
      10<\/td>\n1<\/td>\nnum<\/td>\nCheck digit<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
      11\u201313<\/td>\n3<\/td>\nalpha+<<\/td>\nNationality<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
      14\u201319<\/td>\n6<\/td>\nnum<\/td>\nDate of birth<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
      20<\/td>\n1<\/td>\nnum<\/td>\nCheck digit<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
      21<\/td>\n1<\/td>\nalpha+<<\/td>\nSex<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
      22-27<\/td>\n6<\/td>\nnum<\/td>\nValid until<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
      28<\/td>\n1<\/td>\nnum<\/td>\nCheck digit<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
      29\u201344<\/td>\n16<\/td>\nalpha+num+<<\/td>\nOptional data in MRV-A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
      29\u201336<\/td>\n8<\/td>\nalpha+num+<<\/td>\nOptional data in MRV-B<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      MRZ- Machine readable zone. The ICAO document 9303 describes specifications common to all Machine Readable Travel Documents. MRZ\u00a0fonts: OCR-B \u2022Machine readable passports (MRP) : 2 lines of 44 characters \u2022Machine readable visas (MRV): 2 lines 44 characters, 2 lines 36 characters \u2022Travel documents(ID Card\/ driver’s license): 2 lines of 36 characters, 3 lines of 30 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idepass.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idepass.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idepass.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idepass.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idepass.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.idepass.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idepass.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idepass.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idepass.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}