Know Your Customer Identity Validation Reading Solutions
With an increasing burden of legislation and penalty for wrongdoing or oversight, knowing your customer has become a critical issue in a number of industries. Increasing sophistication of those wishing to pass themselves off with someone else's identity means that readers with the ability to read the advanced features of latest identity documents helps to prevent identity fraud efficiently and with a minimal disruption to the normal operation of the business.
Our devices read the full range of identity documents including passports, ID cards, driver's licences, medical insurance cards and visas. Advanced models are capable of reading hidden security data, including biometric data stored on 'chipped' identity documents such as epassports, eID cards and eMRTDs (Machine Readable Travel Documents). In addition, the LSR120 reads the barcodes commonly used on proof of address documents such as utility bills, often overlooked or not understood by fraudsters.
Customer Identity Validation Reader Applications
Retailers have a legal obligations for age verification before they sell alcohol, tobacco or any age-restricted products to minors. Increasingly, retailers who sell higher value items such as mobile phones and jewellery, have an interest in establishing identity to prevent retail fraud.
Banks, solicitors and attorneys require customers to provide their identification to prove who they are before financial transactions are made: this is fundamental to the way in which regulated firms manage their fraud risks and comply with the money laundering obligations such as the Proceeds of Crime Act, PATRIOT Act, and the FATF initiatives.
Hotels require identity verification for two reasons. The first reason is to protect against fraudulent credit card use: requiring valid ID at check-in ensures that a hotel room was not booked with a stolen credit card. The second reason is to protect the hotel and the safety of other guests: ensuring that only known guests are admitted to hotel rooms, prevents strangers or criminals from comprising the personal safety of others staying in the hotel and protects the hotel in the event of any criminal damage or activity.
Casinos and private clubs increasingly need to verify the identities of their clients during enrolment and entry to verify an individual's age, as a protection against illegal underage activity, and the validity of their identity the ensure bona fide clientele.
Customer Identity Validation Readers
OCR630 full-page flatbed passport and ID document scanner
The OCR630 is a cost-effective device to read the data stored on the data page of a standard passport or from most government issued identity cards and documents using MRZ characters. In addition, the OCR630 has multiple illumination to read the hidden features on passports.
OCR630 low-cost full-page flatbed passport reader
OCR640 full-page flatbed passport and ID document scanner
A full page imager for passports & ID cards using colour, IR & UV lights to allow checking of the hidden graphical patterns on the data page. It simultaneously decodes the machine readable zone (MRZ) from documents complying to ICAO 9303 and an RFID option enables the device to simultaneously decode the contents of an e-passport or contactless smart card chip.
OCR640 full-page flatbed passport reader
LSR120 reads address barcodes to verify proof of address documents
Utility bills are commonly presented as proof of address. While fraudsters can easily falsify the address on documents, producing a fraudulent postal or customer barcode presents a problem or is often overlooked. The LSR120 provides the operator instant reading and interpreting of barcodes providing a useful additional check of the presented document.
LSR120 reads address barcodes to verify proof of address documents