Employers, government agencies and retailers are faced with the conflict of introducing increasingly complex security systems to verify individuals' identity and the desire for them to not affect the lives of employees, customers and members of the public. Increasingly, passports, ID cards and other forms of proof of identity are being read to satisfy legislation, protect from fraud and maintain the security and safety of the public.

Access IS offers fixed and mobile solutions to read traditional and electronic identity and travel documents, from fixed desk locations and for roaming agents in check-in queue-busting and security locations at the airport. The readers are designed to easily integrate into existing platforms; many of our largest customers are world-class systems integrators in airports and security.

The OCR640 reader is targeted at applications where there is a requirement to read the MRZ data and also capture a high quality digital image of the presented document. It captures the full page of a passport as a colour JPEG image and simultaneously decodes the machine readable zone (MRZ) from documents complying to ICAO 9303 with high-precision OCR algorithms. [www.access-is.com]