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nemoniac | 8 months ago

Here's a tidied up version of the Python code to generate the MRZ from the passport data. It also corrects a padding error.

    https://pastebin.com/k0Tty22a
My Dutch driver's licence has a single MRZ-like line across the bottom. It seems to encode the country and licence number but I can't make any sense of the rest of the line. Anyone have any leads?

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Farbklex|8 months ago

I haven't found the docs for the Dutch version but this article shows the content of the MRZ of a French drivers license. They seem to match the Dutch ones as well.

https://trustdochub.com/en/mrz-strip-french-driving-licence/...

nemoniac|8 months ago

Only partially. At least for my Dutch licence. It contains neither holder's last name nor end date.

It does start with D1NLD. Then a single digit which is not the checksum of the foregoing (using the passport checksum algorithm). Then the document number. Then some letters and numbers I can't make any sense of. It ends with a correct global checksum for all of the foregoing.

XiS|8 months ago

Drivers licenses aren't ICAO 9303 compliant. For EU documents a separate spec is being used (NEN-ISO-IEC 18013-3). Small pointer: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...

Context: Made an implementation for reading these when Dutch drivers license model with NFC first came available (model 2014 if I remember correctly)