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Abbreviations

AAMVA
American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators

ANSI
American National Standards Institute

API
Application Programming Interface

Aztec
One of the readable barcode types.

BAC
Basic Access Control: An RFID security mechanism.

BCR
BarCode Recognition. Barcodes are line drawings designed to be recognized easily by computers.

Code 39
One of the readable barcode types.

Code 128
One of the readable barcode types.

EAC
Extended Access Control: An RFID security mechanism.

EAN
One of the readable barcode types.

DataMatrix
One of the readable barcode types.

ICAO
International Civil Aviation Organization

Interleaved 2 of 5
One of the readable barcode types.

ISO
International Organization for Standardization

MRTD
Machine Readable Travel Document

MRZ
Machine Readable Zone: Lower part of an ICAO standard travel document. It contains text designed for reading optically with a travel document reader device.

NIST
National Institute of Standards and Technology

OCR
Optical Character Recognition: Recognizing characters from a digitalized image.

PDF417
One of the readable barcode types.

QR Code
One of the readable barcode types.

RFID
Radio Frequency Identification: System based on built in chip that contains data and can communicate through air.

RFU
Reserved for Future Use

SDK
Software Development Kit

SOD
Document Security Object (see RFID handling)

VIZ
Visual Inspection Zone: Upper part of an ICAO standard travel document. It may contain face photo image and textual, human readable data.


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