You can configure custom parsing to add compatibility for a new identification
document by editing a configuration .json file.
What you should know
- Editing custom parsing requires familiarity with the .json format.
- The configuration file is installed the first time the user scans an identification
document with a Gemalto reader.
Procedure
-
Open Windows Explorer and navigate to
%ProgramData%\Genetec\IDScanner\MrzParserConfiguration.json.
-
Open the MrzParserConfiguration.json file in a text editor.
-
(To add a new identification document rule) For each parsing rule you want to create,
add the following code to the config file and edit as needed:
{
"DocumentType": "<type>",
"CountryCodes": [
"<code>"
],
"LineCount": <number of MRZ lines in the document>,
"Fields": [
{
"Name": "<field name>",
"Ranges": [
{
"Line": <line index>,
"Start": <index for first character>,
"End": <index for last character>
}
]
}
]
},
The following
elements must be
repeated for each range of MRZ information you want to form a field
from:
{
"Line": <line index>,
"Start": <index for first character>,
"End": <index for last character>
}
So,
for an identification document with two lines of MRZ data, you need to determine
Line,
Start, and
End indexes for
each piece of the MRZ lines you want to parse.
-
(to edit an existing identification document rule) Go to the rule for the
identification document you want to edit, and make edits to the country code, line count
and indexes as needed.
-
Save and close the file.
Results
The new or updated identification format can now be parsed.
Example
As an example, say that you need to add a new Utopian ID card to the
.json file, and that the card has a line count of two. For this
example, you need to parse the two ranges of numbers from MRZ line two that correspond to the
person's identity number. The entry would be:
{
"DocumentType": "ID",
"CountryCodes": [
"UTO"
],
"LineCount": 2,
"Fields": [
{
"Name": "DocumentID",
"Ranges": [
{
"Line": 2,
"Start": 15,
"End": 20
},
{
"Line": 2,
"Start": 22,
"End": 27
}
]
}
]
},
