Machine-Readable Zone Fields

List of machine-readable zone (MRZ) fields that ABBYY FineReader Engine 12 extracts from ID documents — document type, name, expiry date, nationality, and more.

ABBYY FineReader Engine 12 provides extraction of the following machine-readable zone (MRZ) fields:

Field type	Description
DocumentType	The type of a document.
DocumentSubtype	The subtype of a document (if exists).
IssuingCountry	Code of issuing state (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code).
LastName	Document holder’s surname.
GivenName	One or several given names separated with the space character.
DocumentNumber	The number of the document (this field contains 9 digits in the ICAO Standard passports and 10 digits in the Russian national passport).
Nationality	Document holder’s nationality (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code).
BirthDate	Document holder’s date of birth.
Sex	Document holder’s sex.
ExpiryDate	Document date of expiry.
PersonalNumber	Document holder’s personal number (if exists).
OptionalDataLine1	Optional data from the first line of the 2-line or 3-line MRZ.
OptionalDataLine2	Optional data from the second line of the 2-line or 3-line MRZ.

See also

MrzFieldTypeEnum

MrzField

Machine-Readable Zone Capture