An ID Scanner is engineered to be fast and accurate at extracting drivers license data. To achieve both, ID Scanners read the 2D bar-code or magnetic stripe present on all 50 state’s drivers licenses. By reading the machine readable data stripe, accurate and fast decoding is possible. Alternative drivers licenses scanners use optical character recognition, but OCR is not the best choice for reading ID data because even on a good data, OCR can only achieve 98% accuracy while decoding bar-code is 100% accurate. Bar-code technology was designed to be read by machines and its very very robust. For example, if you punch a 1/4″ hole in a 2D bar-code on a drivers license, it still can be read. Imagine if the same hole was on the street number of the address. While the bar-code can obtain this data, OCR has no way of determining the street number.