v6.12.0

6.12.0

What's New

• Beta Feature: Second Page Passport Scanning

  • We've launched support for scanning and extracting data from the second page of passports for select countries - Slovenia, Ireland, and New Zealand.

  • When BlinkID detects one of these passports, a UI message will guide the user to the second page. By default, this feature is disabled but can be enabled via the scanPassportDataPageOnly setting on the BlinkIdMultiSideRecognizer.
    If set to false, it will be required to scan the second page of certain passports. This feature is in beta, and your feedback is appreciated.

• USA Green Card - Enabled Data Match for the Document Number field, matching values from the VIZ (Visual Inspection Zone) and MRZ to further enhance extraction reliability.

Bug Fixes

• Spain ID: Fixed an issue with indefinite expiry dates, ensuring consistent values between the MRZ and Visual Inspection Zone (VIZ).
• Bulgaria ID: Improved parsing for indefinite expiry dates in the MRZ for better accuracy.
• Netherlands ID & Norway Passport: Resolved issues with the Personal ID number field that were causing the data match feature to fail.
• Chinese Passport: Enhanced reliability of extracted data with additional logic for the Document Number field.
• German ID & Luxembourg ID: Adjusted name extraction logic to resolve issues with name separation, ensuring more consistent results.

v6.11.2

6.11.2

Bug fixes

• NYC Municipal ID & USA Border Crossing Card - Resolved an issue where the scanning process could get stuck on the back side during multi-side scanning.
• Multithreaded builds are no longer loaded on Safari by default due to a memory leak in the browser.

v6.11.1

6.11.1

Bug fixes

• Fixed memory leak in Safari
• Fixed incorrect positioning of the close button introduced in 6.11.0

v6.11.0

Expanded Document Coverage

New Documents Support

• Armenia - Paper Passport
• Bahamas - Temporary Residence Permit
• Bahamas - Work Permit
• Bangladesh - Polycarbonate Passport
• Comoros - Paper Passport
• Dominican Republic - Non Voter ID
• Greece - Polycarbonate Passport
• Jamaica - Voter ID
• Kazakhstan - Paper Passport
• Kyrgyzstan - Paper Passport
• Kyrgyzstan - Polycarbonate Passport
• Lebanon - Driver's License
• Tajikistan - Identity Card
• Turkmenistan - Polycarbonate Passport
• Uzbekistan - Identity Card

New Document Versions for Supported Documents

• Argentina - Alien ID
• Bulgaria - Identity Card
• Canada, British Columbia - Identity Card
• Canada, British Columbia - Minors Public Services Card
• Croatia - Driver's License
• Jamaica - Paper Passport
• Malaysia - i-Kad
• Mexico, Coahuila - Driver's License
• Montenegro - Driver's License
• Namibia - Identity Card
• Norway - Driver's License
• Pakistan - Proof of Registration
• Panama - Identity Card
• Panama - Residence Permit
• Peru - Minors ID
• Portugal - Identity Card
• Romania - Identity Card
• Trinidad and Tobago - Driver's License
• Turkey - Identity Card
• USA, Arizona - Identity Card
• USA, Colorado - Identity Card
• USA, Michigan - Identity Card
• USA, Mississippi - Driver's License
• USA, Mississippi - Identity Card
• USA, Montana - Identity Card
• USA, North Carolina - Identity Card
• USA, North Carolina - Driver's License
• USA, North Dakota - Driver's License
• USA, Vermont - Identity Card
• USA, Virginia - Identity Card
• USA, Wyoming - Driver's License
• USA, Wyoming - Identity Card
• Uzbekistan - Paper Passport

New Beta Documents Support

• Andorra - Paper Passport
• Andorra - Polycarbonate Passport
• Philippines - Driver's License
• Armenia - Work Permit
• Australia - Asic Card
• Azerbaijan - Driver's License
• Bahamas - Paper Passport
• Bahamas - Polycarbonate Passport
• Cayman Islands - Paper Passport
• Cayman Islands - Polycarbonate Passport
• Cayman Islands - Voter ID
• Gibraltar - Driver's License
• Gibraltar - Identity Card
• Gibraltar - Paper Passport
• Gibraltar - Polycarbonate Passport
• Guyana - Paper Passport
• Kuwait - Bidoon Card
• Kyrgyzstan - Driver's License
• Monaco - Paper Passport
• Pakistan - Afghan Citizen Card
• Philippines, Bangsamoro - Driver's License
• Saint Lucia - Driver's License
• Saint Lucia - Paper Passport
• San Marino - Polycarbonate Passport
• Turks and Caicos Islands - Driver's License
• Turks and Caicos Islands - Identity Card
• Turks and Caicos Islands - Paper Passport
• Australia - Interim Health Insurance Card
• Australia - Reciprocal Health Insurance Card
• UAE - Vehicle Registration

New Document Versions for Beta-Supported Documents

• Barbados - Identity Card
• Brazil - Paper Passport
• Dominican Republic - Driver's License
• India, Gujarat - Driver's License
• Mexico, Puebla - Driver's License
• Philippines - Tax ID
• Philippines - Health Insurance Card
• Australia - Health Insurance Card

New Segments Supported on Documents

• USA - Green Card - eligibilityCategory
• USA - Work Permit - eligibilityCategory
• Greece - Driver's License - placeOfBirth (greek and latin)
• Saudi Arabia - Resident ID - nationality (arabic)
• Bahrain - dateOfExpiry
• USA - Driver's license & ID card - specificDocumentValidity
• Pakistan - Proof of Registration - DependentDateOfBirth, DependentSex, DependentDocumentNumber & DependentFullName

Renamed segments

• Barbados - Identity Card - personalIdNumber -> documentNumber
• Panama - Identity Card - personalIdNumber -> documentNumber
• Panama - Residence Permit - personalIdNumber -> documentNumber

New Features

• Greek Alphabet Support
  • We’ve added support for extracting Place of Birth in both Greek and Latin scripts.
• API changes in BlinkIdSingleSideRecognizer and BlinkIdMultiSideRecognizer:
  • new fields in result: manufacturingYear, vehicleType, eligibilityCategory, specificDocumentValidity, dependentsInfo
  • new values in ClassInfo enums:
    • Region: BANGSAMORO
    • Type: ASIC_CARD, BIDOON_CARD, INTERIM_HEALTH_INSURANCE_CARD, NON_VOTER_ID, RECIPROCAL_HEALTH_INSURANCE_CARD, VEHICLE_REGISTRATION
  • new values in FieldType enum: ManufacturingYear, VehicleType, DependentDateOfBirth, DependentSex, DependentDocumentNumber, DependentFullName, EligibilityCategory, SpecificDocumentValidity

v6.10.1

• Barcode scanning is now optional for Paraguay ID documents.

v6.10.0

New features

• Improved reliability and first-time successful scanning experience
  • Avoiding Double Scans of the Front Side: For a more reliable scanning process, BlinkID now prompts users to flip the document when they scan the front side twice. This improves the overall experience and reduces the chance of mistakes.
  • Starting with the Right Side: If users attempt to scan the back side of a document first, BlinkID will prompt them to begin with the front side. This feature ensures that users follow the correct order, leading to a more reliable and user-friendly experience.

Expanded document coverage

New document versions for supported documents

• Sweden - Social Security Card - Back side
• Bolivia - Driver's License - Back side
• Brazil, Distrito Federal - Identity Card - Back side

Out of beta

• Colombia - Temporary Protection Permit

New beta documents support

• France - Professional ID
• Mexico - Tax ID

New document versions for beta-supported documents

• Brazil, Parana - Identity Card - Back side
• Brazil, Santa Catarina - Identity Card - Back side

New segments supported on documents

• Peru - Alien ID - MRZ

Other changes

• Added imageExtractionFailures to AdditionalProcessingInfo - this allows clients to actively track if any ImageExtractionType (FullDocument, Face, Signature) is not visible on the presented document.
• Added a new result member, barcodeStepUsed, to both BlinkIdSingleSideRecognizer and BlinkIdMultiSideRecognizer. This member indicates whether the barcode scanning step was utilized during the process.
• Added two new settings for BlinkIdSingleSideRecognizer and BlinkIdMultiSideRecognizer:
  • allowBarcodeScanOnly - allows barcode recognition to proceed even if the initial extraction fails - set to false by default
  • combineFrameResults - enables the aggregation of data from multiple frames - set to true by default

v6.9.2

• added new member barcodeStepUsed to BlinkIDSingleSideRecognizer and BlinkIDMultiSideRecognizer results
• improved barcode scanning

v6.9.1

• Fixes iOS camera selection logic when the system locale is set to Spanish

v6.9.0

New features

Custom mandatory fields

• We’re introducing the option for customers to define their own set of mandatory fields. This feature allows greater flexibility in the scanning process by enabling the extraction of only the necessary information from identity documents. Now you can customize the process and focus on only those fields that are relevant to your use case.
• Custom mandatory fields can be set at the document level or applied universally to all document types.

Expanded Document Coverage

New Documents Support

• Austria - Polycarbonate Passport
• Canada - Polycarbonate Passport
• Ecuador - Paper Passport
• Germany - eID
• Guatemala - Alien ID
• Iraq - Polycarbonate Passport
• Namibia - Identity Card
• Nepal - Polycarbonate Passport
• Sweden - SIS ID
• USA, Delaware - Identity Card
• USA, Louisiana - Identity Card
• USA, Vermont - Identity Card

New Document Versions for Supported Documents

• Bolivia - Identity Card
• Canada, British Columbia - Public Services Card
• Finland - Identity Card
• Greece - Identity Card
• Malaysia - iKAD
• Mexico, Nuevo Leon - Driver's License
• Mexico, Tlaxcala - Driver's License
• Morocco - Driver's License
• Thailand - Polycarbonate Passport
• USA - Alaska - Driver's License
• USA - Alaska - Identity Card
• USA - Connecticut - Identity Card
• USA - Delaware - Driver's License
• USA - District of Columbia - Driver's License
• USA - Hawaii - Identity Card
• USA - Idaho - Driver's License
• USA - Indiana - Driver's License
• USA - Indiana - Identity Card
• USA - Iowa - Identity Card
• USA - Kansas - Identity Card
• USA - Kentucky - Identity Card
• USA - Kentucky - Driver's License
• USA - Maine - Identity Card
• USA - Maine - Driver's License
• USA - Michigan - Driver's License
• USA - Minnesota - Driver's License
• USA - Minnesota - Identity Card
• USA - Montana - Identity Card
• USA - Montana - Driver's License
• USA - New Hampshire - Identity Card
• USA - New Mexico - Driver's License
• USA - New Mexico - Identity Card
• USA - New York - Identity Card
• USA - North Dakota - Identity Card
• USA - Oregon - Identity Card
• USA - Pennsylvania - Driver's License
• USA - Rhode Island - Identity Card
• USA - South Carolina - Identity Card
• USA - Vermont - Driver's License
• USA - Washington - Identity Card
• USA - Wyoming - Driver's License
• USA - Wyoming - Identity Card

Out of Beta

• European Union - Health Insurance Card

New Beta Documents Support

• Democratic Republic of the Congo - Voter ID
• Philippines - Alien ID
• Philippines - Postal ID
• Philippines - Work Permit
• Philippines - Health Insurance Card

New Document Versions for Beta-Supported Documents

• Honduras - Paper Passport
• Mexico, Sonora - Driver's License
• Peru - Alien ID
• Philippines - Alien ID

New Segments Supported on Documents

• China Exit Entry Permit - MRZ
• China Mainland Travel Permit Taiwan - MRZ
• France Residence permit - Remarks & ResidencePermitType
• Philippines Alien ID - visaType

Bug Fixes

• German ID - Fixed issues in cases when documents contain multiple surnames.
• Paraguay ID - Added support for parsing the smaller barcode found on the back side of the ID.
• Bulgaria Driver’s License - The Address field is set to optional, improving the extraction process.
• Improved MRZ parsing for the back side of the following identity documents:
  • Brazil Alien ID
  • Kenya ID
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina ID
  • Ivory Coast ID
  • Paraguay ID

API changes

• ClassAnonymizationSettings type now uses classFilter property of type ClassFilter instead of country, region and type properties

• New result members: remarks, residencePermitType and visaType added to BlinkIdMultiSideRecognizerResult, BlinkIdSingleSideRecognizerResult and VIZResult

• New field types: Remarks, ResidencePermitType and VisaType to FieldType enum

• Added new enum AlphabetType

• Added new type DetailedFieldType

• Added new type ClassFilter

• Added new type CustomClassRules

• Added new settings customClassRules as an array of CustomClassRules types for defining custom mandatory fields

• Added new region: ALAGOAS to Region enum

• Added new document types: AFGHAN_CITIZEN_CARD, EID, PASS, SIS_ID to DocumentType enum

v6.8.0

New Features

• BlinkID now extracts precise information about subtypes of driver’s licenses and ID cards (e.g., conditional driver’s license, learner’s permit, provision, enhanced, etc.). This information is included in the scanning results as a documentSubtype field allowing you to tailor workflows or processes based on document limitations.

Bugfixes

• Fixed data match for Paraguay ID 2023 to cover inconsistencies between the MRZ and Visual Inspection Zone (VIZ)