AAMVA PDF417 Barcode Decode

[Richard Kelly]

Recently, I was asked to add scanning driver licenses to an application. Attached in an FF3 demonstration I came up with as a "proof of concept". I tested by scanning driver's licenses although I wrote the decode function to handle any properly formatted AAMVA PDF417 document. My family and friends are likely a bit happier now that I'm not asking them to produce their DL's so I can scan them

I used a timer control in an attempt to "know" when the scan was done with an interval of 500ms that might need some tweaking. I thought about hiding the input text control in some way and just decided to keep it visible for now.

For more information on the AAMVA and their PDF417 bar code standards in wide use (particularly driver license documents), visit:

http://www.aamva.org

If anyone has some sorely needed "upgrades", please let us all know.

Enjoy!

Rick Kelly