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October 25, 2024

v6.11.2​

Bug fixes​

  • NYC Municipal ID & USA Border Crossing Card - Resolved an issue where the scanning process could get stuck on the back side during multi-side scanning.
  • Multithreaded builds are no longer loaded on Safari by default due to a memory leak in the browser.

October 10, 2024

v6.11.1​

Bug fixes​

  • Fixed memory leak in Safari
  • Fixed incorrect positioning of the close button introduced in 6.11.0

October 3, 2024

v6.11.0​

Expanded Document Coverage​

New Documents Support​

  • Armenia - Paper Passport
  • Bahamas - Temporary Residence Permit
  • Bahamas - Work Permit
  • Bangladesh - Polycarbonate Passport
  • Comoros - Paper Passport
  • Dominican Republic - Non Voter ID
  • Greece - Polycarbonate Passport
  • Jamaica - Voter ID
  • Kazakhstan - Paper Passport
  • Kyrgyzstan - Paper Passport
  • Kyrgyzstan - Polycarbonate Passport
  • Lebanon - Driver's License
  • Tajikistan - Identity Card
  • Turkmenistan - Polycarbonate Passport
  • Uzbekistan - Identity Card

New Document Versions for Supported Documents​

  • Argentina - Alien ID
  • Bulgaria - Identity Card
  • Canada, British Columbia - Identity Card
  • Canada, British Columbia - Minors Public Services Card
  • Croatia - Driver's License
  • Jamaica - Paper Passport
  • Malaysia - i-Kad
  • Mexico, Coahuila - Driver's License
  • Montenegro - Driver's License
  • Namibia - Identity Card
  • Norway - Driver's License
  • Pakistan - Proof of Registration
  • Panama - Identity Card
  • Panama - Residence Permit
  • Peru - Minors ID
  • Portugal - Identity Card
  • Romania - Identity Card
  • Trinidad and Tobago - Driver's License
  • Turkey - Identity Card
  • USA, Arizona - Identity Card
  • USA, Colorado - Identity Card
  • USA, Michigan - Identity Card
  • USA, Mississippi - Driver's License
  • USA, Mississippi - Identity Card
  • USA, Montana - Identity Card
  • USA, North Carolina - Identity Card
  • USA, North Carolina - Driver's License
  • USA, North Dakota - Driver's License
  • USA, Vermont - Identity Card
  • USA, Virginia - Identity Card
  • USA, Wyoming - Driver's License
  • USA, Wyoming - Identity Card
  • Uzbekistan - Paper Passport

New Beta Documents Support​

  • Andorra - Paper Passport
  • Andorra - Polycarbonate Passport
  • Philippines - Driver's License
  • Armenia - Work Permit
  • Australia - Asic Card
  • Azerbaijan - Driver's License
  • Bahamas - Paper Passport
  • Bahamas - Polycarbonate Passport
  • Cayman Islands - Paper Passport
  • Cayman Islands - Polycarbonate Passport
  • Cayman Islands - Voter ID
  • Gibraltar - Driver's License
  • Gibraltar - Identity Card
  • Gibraltar - Paper Passport
  • Gibraltar - Polycarbonate Passport
  • Guyana - Paper Passport
  • Kuwait - Bidoon Card
  • Kyrgyzstan - Driver's License
  • Monaco - Paper Passport
  • Pakistan - Afghan Citizen Card
  • Philippines, Bangsamoro - Driver's License
  • Saint Lucia - Driver's License
  • Saint Lucia - Paper Passport
  • San Marino - Polycarbonate Passport
  • Turks and Caicos Islands - Driver's License
  • Turks and Caicos Islands - Identity Card
  • Turks and Caicos Islands - Paper Passport
  • Australia - Interim Health Insurance Card
  • Australia - Reciprocal Health Insurance Card
  • UAE - Vehicle Registration

New Document Versions for Beta-Supported Documents​

  • Barbados - Identity Card
  • Brazil - Paper Passport
  • Dominican Republic - Driver's License
  • India, Gujarat - Driver's License
  • Mexico, Puebla - Driver's License
  • Philippines - Tax ID
  • Philippines - Health Insurance Card
  • Australia - Health Insurance Card

New Segments Supported on Documents​

  • USA - Green Card - eligibilityCategory
  • USA - Work Permit - eligibilityCategory
  • Greece - Driver's License - placeOfBirth (greek and latin)
  • Saudi Arabia - Resident ID - nationality (arabic)
  • Bahrain - dateOfExpiry
  • USA - Driver's license & ID card - specificDocumentValidity
  • Pakistan - Proof of Registration - DependentDateOfBirth, DependentSex, DependentDocumentNumber & DependentFullName

Renamed segments​

  • Barbados - Identity Card - personalIdNumber -> documentNumber
  • Panama - Identity Card - personalIdNumber -> documentNumber
  • Panama - Residence Permit - personalIdNumber -> documentNumber

New Features​

  • Greek Alphabet Support
    • We’ve added support for extracting Place of Birth in both Greek and Latin scripts.
  • API changes in BlinkIdSingleSideRecognizer and BlinkIdMultiSideRecognizer:
    • new fields in result: manufacturingYear, vehicleType, eligibilityCategory, specificDocumentValidity, dependentsInfo
    • new values in ClassInfo enums:
      • Region: BANGSAMORO
      • Type: ASIC_CARD, BIDOON_CARD, INTERIM_HEALTH_INSURANCE_CARD, NON_VOTER_ID, RECIPROCAL_HEALTH_INSURANCE_CARD, VEHICLE_REGISTRATION
    • new values in FieldType enum: ManufacturingYear, VehicleType, DependentDateOfBirth, DependentSex, DependentDocumentNumber, DependentFullName, EligibilityCategory, SpecificDocumentValidity

September 17, 2024

v6.10.1​

  • Barcode scanning is now optional for Paraguay ID documents.

September 6, 2024

v6.10.0​

New features​

  • Improved reliability and first-time successful scanning experience
    • Avoiding Double Scans of the Front Side: For a more reliable scanning process, BlinkID now prompts users to flip the document when they scan the front side twice. This improves the overall experience and reduces the chance of mistakes.
    • Starting with the Right Side: If users attempt to scan the back side of a document first, BlinkID will prompt them to begin with the front side. This feature ensures that users follow the correct order, leading to a more reliable and user-friendly experience.

Expanded document coverage​

New document versions for supported documents​

  • Sweden - Social Security Card - Back side
  • Bolivia - Driver's License - Back side
  • Brazil, Distrito Federal - Identity Card - Back side

Out of beta​

  • Colombia - Temporary Protection Permit

New beta documents support​

  • France - Professional ID
  • Mexico - Tax ID

New document versions for beta-supported documents​

  • Brazil, Parana - Identity Card - Back side
  • Brazil, Santa Catarina - Identity Card - Back side

New segments supported on documents​

  • Peru - Alien ID - MRZ

Other changes​

  • Added imageExtractionFailures to AdditionalProcessingInfo - this allows clients to actively track if any ImageExtractionType (FullDocument, Face, Signature) is not visible on the presented document.
  • Added a new result member, barcodeStepUsed, to both BlinkIdSingleSideRecognizer and BlinkIdMultiSideRecognizer. This member indicates whether the barcode scanning step was utilized during the process.
  • Added two new settings for BlinkIdSingleSideRecognizer and BlinkIdMultiSideRecognizer:
    • allowBarcodeScanOnly - allows barcode recognition to proceed even if the initial extraction fails - set to false by default
    • combineFrameResults - enables the aggregation of data from multiple frames - set to true by default

August 27, 2024

v6.9.2​

  • added new member barcodeStepUsed to BlinkIDSingleSideRecognizer and BlinkIDMultiSideRecognizer results
  • improved barcode scanning

August 8, 2024

v6.9.1​

  • Fixes iOS camera selection logic when the system locale is set to Spanish

July 15, 2024

v6.9.0​

New features​

Custom mandatory fields​

  • We’re introducing the option for customers to define their own set of mandatory fields. This feature allows greater flexibility in the scanning process by enabling the extraction of only the necessary information from identity documents. Now you can customize the process and focus on only those fields that are relevant to your use case.
  • Custom mandatory fields can be set at the document level or applied universally to all document types.

Expanded Document Coverage​

New Documents Support​

  • Austria - Polycarbonate Passport
  • Canada - Polycarbonate Passport
  • Ecuador - Paper Passport
  • Germany - eID
  • Guatemala - Alien ID
  • Iraq - Polycarbonate Passport
  • Namibia - Identity Card
  • Nepal - Polycarbonate Passport
  • Sweden - SIS ID
  • USA, Delaware - Identity Card
  • USA, Louisiana - Identity Card
  • USA, Vermont - Identity Card

New Document Versions for Supported Documents​

  • Bolivia - Identity Card
  • Canada, British Columbia - Public Services Card
  • Finland - Identity Card
  • Greece - Identity Card
  • Malaysia - iKAD
  • Mexico, Nuevo Leon - Driver's License
  • Mexico, Tlaxcala - Driver's License
  • Morocco - Driver's License
  • Thailand - Polycarbonate Passport
  • USA - Alaska - Driver's License
  • USA - Alaska - Identity Card
  • USA - Connecticut - Identity Card
  • USA - Delaware - Driver's License
  • USA - District of Columbia - Driver's License
  • USA - Hawaii - Identity Card
  • USA - Idaho - Driver's License
  • USA - Indiana - Driver's License
  • USA - Indiana - Identity Card
  • USA - Iowa - Identity Card
  • USA - Kansas - Identity Card
  • USA - Kentucky - Identity Card
  • USA - Kentucky - Driver's License
  • USA - Maine - Identity Card
  • USA - Maine - Driver's License
  • USA - Michigan - Driver's License
  • USA - Minnesota - Driver's License
  • USA - Minnesota - Identity Card
  • USA - Montana - Identity Card
  • USA - Montana - Driver's License
  • USA - New Hampshire - Identity Card
  • USA - New Mexico - Driver's License
  • USA - New Mexico - Identity Card
  • USA - New York - Identity Card
  • USA - North Dakota - Identity Card
  • USA - Oregon - Identity Card
  • USA - Pennsylvania - Driver's License
  • USA - Rhode Island - Identity Card
  • USA - South Carolina - Identity Card
  • USA - Vermont - Driver's License
  • USA - Washington - Identity Card
  • USA - Wyoming - Driver's License
  • USA - Wyoming - Identity Card

Out of Beta​

  • European Union - Health Insurance Card

New Beta Documents Support​

  • Democratic Republic of the Congo - Voter ID
  • Philippines - Alien ID
  • Philippines - Postal ID
  • Philippines - Work Permit
  • Philippines - Health Insurance Card

New Document Versions for Beta-Supported Documents​

  • Honduras - Paper Passport
  • Mexico, Sonora - Driver's License
  • Peru - Alien ID
  • Philippines - Alien ID

New Segments Supported on Documents​

  • China Exit Entry Permit - MRZ
  • China Mainland Travel Permit Taiwan - MRZ
  • France Residence permit - Remarks & ResidencePermitType
  • Philippines Alien ID - visaType

Bug Fixes​

  • German ID - Fixed issues in cases when documents contain multiple surnames.
  • Paraguay ID - Added support for parsing the smaller barcode found on the back side of the ID.
  • Bulgaria Driver’s License - The Address field is set to optional, improving the extraction process.
  • Improved MRZ parsing for the back side of the following identity documents:
    • Brazil Alien ID
    • Kenya ID
    • Bosnia and Herzegovina ID
    • Ivory Coast ID
    • Paraguay ID

API changes​

  • ClassAnonymizationSettings type now uses classFilter property of type ClassFilter instead of country, region and type properties
  • New result members: remarks, residencePermitType and visaType added to BlinkIdMultiSideRecognizerResult, BlinkIdSingleSideRecognizerResult and VIZResult
  • New field types: Remarks, ResidencePermitType and VisaType to FieldType enum
  • Added new enum AlphabetType
  • Added new type DetailedFieldType
  • Added new type ClassFilter
  • Added new type CustomClassRules
  • Added new settings customClassRules as an array of CustomClassRules types for defining custom mandatory fields
  • Added new region: ALAGOAS to Region enum
  • Added new document types: AFGHAN_CITIZEN_CARD, EID, PASS, SIS_ID to DocumentType enum

June 12, 2024

v6.8.0​

New Features​

  • BlinkID now extracts precise information about subtypes of driver’s licenses and ID cards (e.g., conditional driver’s license, learner’s permit, provision, enhanced, etc.). This information is included in the scanning results as a documentSubtype field allowing you to tailor workflows or processes based on document limitations.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixed data match for Paraguay ID 2023 to cover inconsistencies between the MRZ and Visual Inspection Zone (VIZ)

June 4, 2024

v6.7.2​

Bugfix​

  • Fixes an issue introduced in 6.7.1 where the UI component overlay would not hide after finishing a scanning session.

May 7, 2024

v6.7.1​

New Features​

Improved blur and glare detection​

  • enableBlurFilter and enableGlareFilter properties have been added on BlinkID recognizer settings. These are enabled by default, but users can turn them off if they want to allow blur and glare on captured frames.
  • blurStrictnessLevel and glareStrictnessLevel properties have been added on BlinkID recognizer settings. These can be configured using the StrictnessLevel enum, which can be Strict, Normal (default) or Relaxed.
  • New properties on ImageAnalysisResult:
    • blurDetected and glareDetected

Bug fixes​

  • A bug that caused memory leaks when reconfiguring the recognizer runner has been fixed
  • The barcode scanning step feedback is now properly displayed in the UI component
  • Improved camera selection algorithm

Breaking changes ⚠️​

  • allowBlurFilter has been renamed to enableBlurFilter
  • The blurred property on ImageAnalysisResult has been renamed to blurDetected

April 23, 2024

v6.7.0​

New Features​

  • Real ID symbol detection on US driver's license
    • BlinkID can now identify Real ID symbols from US driver’s licenses, providing feedback on their presence or absence. This ensures customers can quickly determine if a Real ID symbol is available on a scanned US driver’s license to be compliant with Real ID regulations.
  • Partial anonymization of the "Document Number"
    • To ensure user privacy and security, BlinkID now offers the option of partially anonymizing the document number from the scanned document.
  • Mandatory Barcode Presence on US documents
    • To minimize the cases of capturing the front side of the document as the back frame in the results, BlinkID now requires the presence of a barcode before saving the back frame on US documents. Processing status BarcodeDetectionFailed is returned when the mandatory barcode is not present on the back of US documents.

Minor API changes​

  • Added BarcodeDetectionFailed as a new ProcessingStatus
    • This status is triggered once the barcode was not found on the image. This processing status can only occur if the document has the mandatory barcode.
  • Added new boolean member realIdDetectionStatus to the ImageAnalysisResult. If true, Real ID symbol is present, false otherwise.
  • Added new member documentNumberAnonymizationSettings to the ClassAnonymizationSettings for seamless integration with the document number anonymization feature.

Bug Fixes​

  • Updated internal mapping for Myanmar Passports to display nationality as "Myanmarese" instead of "Burmese" on Myanmar passports.
  • On Peru ID "Date of Issue" is marked optional, offering customers more flexibility in capturing ID information.
  • Improved "Date of Expiry" handling logic for MRZ in cases where documents with a date of expiry year 1969 were not correctly sanitized.

March 22, 2024

v6.6.0​

Document Updates​

New Documents Support:​

  • Australia - Polycarbonate Passport
  • Indonesia - Polycarbonate Passport
  • Mexico - Consular Voter ID
  • Moldova - Polycarbonate Passport
  • Pakistan - Proof Of Registration
  • Panama - Polycarbonate Passport
  • USA - West Virginia - ID Card

New Beta Documents Support:​

  • Brazil - Ceara - ID Card
  • Brazil - Goias - ID Card
  • Brazil - Sergipe - ID Card
  • China - Exit Entry Permit
  • China - Mainland Travel Permit Taiwan
  • Colombia - Temporary Protection Permit
  • India - DL
  • India - Andhra Pradesh - DL
  • India - Haryana - DL
  • European Union - Health Insurance Card

New Document Versions for Supported Documents:​

  • Australia - Queensland - DL
  • Australia - Victoria - DL
  • Australia - Western Australia - DL
  • Bolivia - Minor's ID
  • Brazil - Alien ID
  • Estonia - DL
  • Finland - Alien ID
  • Guatemala - Paper Passport
  • India - Paper Passport - New side type
  • Malta - DL
  • Mexico - Guanajuato - DL
  • Mexico - San Luis Potosi - DL
  • New Zealand - Polycarbonate Passport
  • Paraguay - ID Card
  • Slovenia - Residence Permit
  • USA - Green Card
  • USA - Work Permit
  • USA - Arizona - ID Card
  • USA - Colorado - DL
  • USA - Colorado - ID Card
  • USA - District of Columbia - DL
  • USA - District of Columbia - ID Card
  • USA - Idaho - DL
  • USA - Idaho - ID Card
  • USA - Missouri - ID Card
  • USA - Nebraska - ID Card
  • USA - Nevada - ID Card
  • USA - New York - ID Card
  • USA - North Dakota - DL
  • USA - Oklahoma - ID Card
  • USA - Pennsylvania - ID Card
  • USA - Utah - ID Card
  • USA - Virginia - DL
  • USA - Virginia - ID Card
  • USA - West Virginia - DL
  • USA - Wisconsin - DL
  • USA - Wisconsin - ID Card

New Document Versions for Beta Supported Documents:​

  • Australia - Queensland - Proof of Age Card
  • Brazil - ID Card
  • Ireland - Residence Permit
  • Mexico - Consular ID
  • Mexico - Residence Permit
  • Mexico - Nayarit - DL
  • USA - North Dakota - ID Card

Out of Beta:​

  • Croatia - Residence Permit
  • Moldova - Paper Passport

Platform Updates​

  • Expanded geographic support with new Region enum values:
    • ANDHRA_PRADESH
    • CEARA
    • GOIAS
    • GUERRERO_ACAPULCO_DE_JUAREZ
    • HARYANA
    • SERGIPE
  • Document recognition enhanced with new Type enum values:
    • EXIT_ENTRY_PERMIT
    • MAINLAND_TRAVEL_PERMIT_TAIWAN
    • NBI_CLEARANCE
    • PROOF_OF_REGISTRATION
    • TEMPORARY_PROTECTION_PERMIT
  • Data extraction improvements:
    • Added Sponsor and BloodType result fields to BlinkIdMultiSideRecognizer.Result, BlinkIdSingleSideRecognizer.Result and VizResult

March 12, 2024

v6.5.2​

  • Fixed issue with improper packaging.

March 12, 2024

v6.5.1​

Lightweight builds​

  • This release contains multiple builds tailored for different devices' capabilities.

These builds are:

Full​

Regular build that has barcode deblurring models. This build is loaded automatically on desktop devices.

Lightweight​

Build without deblurring models. This build is loaded automatically on mobile devices. Deblurring models are usually not necessary due to better quality cameras compared to front-facing laptop cameras.

These builds each contain previous build variants present so far: basic, advanced with SIMD and advanced with multithreading making a total of 6 possible builds.

These builds can be overridden by using a new property on the settings objects WasmSDKLoadSettings.blinkIdVariant:

export type BlinkIDVariant = "full" | "lightweight";

These can also be set on the UI component via the blinkIdVariant prop.

Dynamic webassembly memory management​

Depending on the device used, the SDK will allocate different amounts of memory on startup. This is primarily used as a mitigation mechanism for iOS's memory management, which often blocks webassembly memory growth.

Although it's not recommended, this can be overridden using WasmSDKLoadSettings.initialMemory.

Other fixes:​

  • Fixed an issue where certain iOS devices would display a zoomed in preview.
  • Improved scanning of Bolivia IDs by addressing cases where the expiration date is covered by a signature, allowing the completion of the scanning process.

February 13, 2024

v6.3.3​

Device-specific optimized builds​

This release contains multiple builds tailored for different devices' memory management capabilities.

These builds are:

Full​

Regular build that has dynamic memory allocation and deblurring models. This build is loaded automatically on desktop devices.

Lightweight​

Build with dynamic memory allocation and no deblurring models. This build is loaded on Android devices. Deblurring models are not necessary due to better quality cameras compared to front-facing laptop cameras.

Lightweight with fixed memory​

Same as lightweight, but without dynamic memory allocation. This build is loaded on iOS devices which have issues working with dynamic memory allocation.

These builds each contain further subsets present so far: basic, advanced with SIMD and advanced with multithreading making a total of 9 possible builds.

These builds can be overriden by using a new property on the settings objects WasmSDKLoadSettings.wasmFlavor:

enum WasmFlavor {
    Full,
    Lightweight,
    LighweightWithFixedMemory
}

These can also be set on the UI component via the wasmFlavor prop with the values Full, Lightweight or LighweightWithFixedMemory.

Other fixes:​

  • fixed an issue where certain iOS devices would display a zoomed in preview.

January 25, 2024

v6.5.0​

New features​

  • Improved the document side detection for US driver's licenses which reduces the possibility of capturing the wrong side of the document

Breaking changes​

  • It's now mandatory to scan the barcode when scanning the back side of US driver's licences using the BlinkID Multi Side Recognizer

Bugfixes​

  • Fixed a bug where settings weren't updated correctly when set via the UI component
  • Fixed data matching issue in Guatamala Passport

January 8, 2024

v6.4.0​

New features​

  • Added new result member cardRotation to ImageAnalysisResult structure

  • New CardOrientation status - NotAvailable

  • New Region enum values:

    • DISTRITO_FEDERAL
    • MARANHAO
    • MATO_GROSSO
    • MINAS_GERAIS
    • PARA
    • PARANA
    • PERNAMBUCO
    • SANTA_CATARINA

  • New Type enum values:

    • CONSULAR_VOTER_ID
    • TWIC_CARD

Added support for 8 new documents​

  • Bolivia - Paper Passport
  • Brazil - Alien ID
  • Brazil - Distrito Federal - Identity Card
  • Brazil - Minas Gerais - Identity Card
  • Cameroon - Polycarbonate Passport
  • Costa Rica - Paper Passport
  • UK - Proof of Age Card
  • USA - Twic Card

Added support for 17 new documents in BETA​

  • Australia - Australian Capital Territory - Identity Card
  • Australia - Queensland - Proof of Age Card
  • Australia - Tasmania - Identity Card
  • Australia - Western Australia - Identity Card
  • Bahrain - Driver’s License
  • Bahrain - Paper Passport
  • Brazil - Maranhao - Identity Card
  • Brazil - Mato Grosso - Identity Card
  • Brazil - Para - Identity Card
  • Brazil - Parana - Identity Card
  • Brazil - Pernambuco - Identity Card
  • Brazil - Santa Catarina - Identity Card
  • Cameroon - Paper Passport
  • Mexico - Quintana Roo, Benito Juarez - Driver’s License
  • Mexico - Quintana Roo -Driver’s License
  • Switzerland - Polycarbonate Passport
  • UAE - Polycarbonate Passport

Added support for 14 new versions of already supported documents​

  • Brazil - Driver’s License
  • Luxembourg - Identity Card
  • North Macedonia - Identity Card
  • Portugal - Driver’s License
  • Slovakia - Identity Card
  • Switzerland - Identity Card
  • Switzerland - Driver’s License
  • Turkey - Polycarbonate Passport
  • Ukraine - Driver’s License
  • USA - Arizona - Driver’s License
  • USA - Arizona - Identity Card
  • USA - Nebraska - Driver’s License
  • USA - Pennsylvania - Identity Card
  • USA - Virginia - Driver’s License

Added support for 2 new versions of already supported documents in BETA​

  • Iceland - Paper Passport
  • Mexico - Consular ID

December 11, 2023

v6.3.2​

Bugfix:​

  • Export missing DocumentSide

December 4, 2023

v6.3.1​

  • Reintroduce missing lightweight build

November 28, 2023

v6.3.0​

New features​

  • Changes to the BlinkIdSingleSideRecognizer and BlinkIdMultiSideRecognizer:
    • add new fields inside StringResult:
      • arabicLocation - location coordinates of the arabic text or undefined if arabic text is empty
      • cyrillicLocation - location coordinates of the cyrillic text or undefined if cyrillic text is empty
      • latinLocation - location coordinates of the latin text or undefined if latin text is empty
      • arabicSide - document side of the arabic text or undefined if arabic text is empty
      • cyrillicSide - document side of the cyrillic text or undefined if cyrillic text is empty
      • latinSide - document side of the latin text or undefined if latin text is empty
    • new results in Recognizer.Result:
      • faceImageLocation
      • faceImageSide
  • Add new Country enum value - SCHENGEN_AREA
  • And new Type enum value - IMMIGRANT_VISA

Bugfixes​

  • Improved scanning success rate and stability when using BlinkIdMultiSideRecognizer

Minor breaking changes​

  • renamed and reordeded elements in the DetectionStatus enum

September 27, 2023

v6.2.1​

Bugfixes​

  • fixed "payload corrupted" error when using online license key
  • fixed integer overflow in BlinkID class filter implementation

August 29, 2023

v6.2.0​

New features​

  • new and improved machine learning models for data extraction
  • expanded support for arabic documents
  • added isFilledByDomainKnowledge flag to Date and DateResult
    • indicates that date is not extracted from image but filled based on our internal document knowledge
  • added new setting additionalAnonymization
    • enables custom anonymization for any field per country, region and type of document
  • added new items to enums:
    • Region:
      • NORTHWEST_TERRITORIES (added item to enum, no document support for NORTHWEST_TERRITORIES yet)
      • NUNAVUT (added item to enum, no document support for NUNAVUT yet)
      • PRINCE_EDWARD_ISLAND
    • Type:
      • ASYLUM_REQUEST
      • DRIVER_QUALIFICATION_CARD
      • PROVISIONAL_DL
      • REFUGEE_PASSPORT
      • SPECIAL_ID
      • UNIFORMED_SERVICES_ID
    • FieldType:
      • BloodType
      • Sponsor

Added support for 9 new documents​

  • Belarus - ID Card
  • Guyana - ID Card
  • Jamaica - Paper Passport
  • Myanmar - Paper Passport
  • Palestine - Paper Passport
  • Saint Kitts and Nevis - Driving License
  • Syria - ID Card
  • Trinidad and Tobago - Paper Passport
  • USA - Uniformed Services ID Card

Added support for 23 new documents in BETA​

  • Barbados - Driving License
  • Belarus - Polycarbonate Passport
  • Belarus - Residence Permit
  • Belgium - Provisional Driving License
  • Belgium - Special ID Card
  • Bulgaria - Alien ID Card
  • Bulgaria - Residence Permit
  • Canada - New Brunswick - ID Card
  • Canada - Prince Edward Island - Driving License
  • Estonia - Polycarbonate Passport
  • Germany - Driver Qualification Card
  • Guyana - Driving License
  • Kuwait - Paper Passport
  • Lebanon - Paper Passport
  • Liechtenstein - Driving License
  • Malta - Paper Passport
  • Malta - Polycarbonate Passport
  • Moldova - Driving License
  • Netherlands - Alien ID Card
  • Oman - Paper Passport
  • Peru - Alien ID Card
  • Romania - Residence Permit
  • UK - Asylum Request

Added support for 28 new versions of already supported documents​

  • Canada - British Columbia - Public Services Card
  • Canada - British Columbia - Driving License
  • Cyprus - Residence Permit
  • Denmark - Polycarbonate Passport
  • Germany - ID Card
  • Italy - ID Card
  • Ireland - Passport Card
  • Malta - ID Card
  • Montenegro - ID Card
  • Montenegro - Polycarbonate Passport
  • North Macedonia - ID Card
  • North Macedonia - Polycarbonate Passport
  • Norway - Driving License
  • Norway - Residence Permit
  • Norway - Polycarbonate Passport
  • Philippines - Driving License
  • Sweden - Polycarbonate Refugee Passport
  • Sweden - Social Security Card
  • UAE - Resident ID Card
  • UK - Proof of Age Card
  • USA - Arkansas - ID Card
  • USA - Colorado - ID Card
  • USA - Idaho - ID Card
  • USA - Illinois - ID Card
  • USA - New York - Driving License
  • USA - New York - ID card
  • USA - Pennsylvania - Driving License
  • USA - Washington - Driving License

Added support for 3 new versions of already supported documents in BETA​

  • Denmark - Residence Permit
  • Estonia - Residence Permit
  • Latvia - Residence Permit

Bugfixes​

  • We've fixed the issue with reading the information on the back side of USA/Washington and USA/Vermont driver's license documents.
  • We've fixed a bug within our UI component when using RTL direction on Safari and Firefox browsers.

May 23, 2023

v6.1.0​

New features​

  • New and improved machine learning models for data extraction
  • Further improved barcode scanning (parsing for non-standard US DLs)
  • Added anonymization for QR code on Dutch ID card
  • Anonymization of religion field on Malaysian documents
  • Device-to-device (D2D) feature - BETA (see more in UI improvements section below)

Added support for 9 new documents:​

  • Australia - Victoria - Proof of Age Card
  • Brazil - Rio de Janeiro - ID Card
  • Liechtenstein - ID Card
  • Luxembourg - Passport
  • Mozambique - ID Card
  • Norway - ID Card
  • Togo - ID Card
  • USA - Wyoming - ID Card
  • Zimbabwe - ID Card

Added support for 9 new documents in BETA:​

  • Barbados - ID Card
  • Belgium - Passport
  • Brazil - Rio Grande do Sul - ID Card
  • Ireland - Residence Permit
  • Japan - Residence Permit
  • Lithuania - Residence Permit
  • Saint Lucia - ID Card
  • USA - New Hampshire - ID Card
  • USA - South Dakota - ID Card

Added support for 34 new versions of already supported documents:​

  • Belgium - Resident ID Card
  • Canada - Residence Permit
  • Estonia - ID Card
  • Finland - Alien ID Card
  • Finland - ID Card
  • Latvia - Alien ID Card
  • Lithuania - ID Card
  • Luxembourg - ID Card
  • Malta - Residence Permit
  • Netherlands - ID Card
  • Netherlands - Residence Permit
  • Poland - ID Card
  • Sweden Residence Permit
  • USA - Alabama - ID Card
  • USA - Alaska - ID Card
  • USA - Colorado - Driving License
  • USA - Connecticut - ID Card
  • USA - District of Colombia - Driving License
  • USA - District of Colombia - ID Card
  • USA - Iowa - ID Card
  • USA - Kansas - ID Card
  • USA - Louisiana - Driving License
  • USA - Maine - Driving License
  • USA - Maine - ID Card
  • USA - Minnesota - ID Card
  • USA - Mississippi - ID Card
  • USA - Nevada - Driving License
  • USA - New York - Driving License
  • USA - South Carolina - ID Card
  • USA - South Dakota - Driving License
  • USA - Texas - ID Card
  • USA - Vermont - Driving License
  • USA - Washington - ID Card
  • USA - Wisconsin - Driving License

Added support for 2 new versions of already supported documents in BETA:​

  • Poland - Residence Permit
  • Portugal - Residence Permit

Changes to BlinkID VideoRecognizer​

VideoRecognizer has been refactored.

  • This refactor has fixed some memory leak issues present in the previous implementation.
  • Now uses requestVideoFrameCallback for queuing video frames in browsers which support it.
  • Errors are no longer treated as rejected promises, but are instead thrown.
  • this.videoElement can no longer be changed or removed on the instance.
  • Implemented iOS browser security rules for video playback.
  • Added a helper this.getVideoElement method for getting the reference to the video.

Breaking changes:

  • NotSupportedReason has been removed and videoRecognizerErrors are used directly instead.
  • onScanningDone will no longer trigger on user cancellation.
  • setClearTimeoutCallback has been removed from the RecognizerRunner as it's effectively the same thing as onFirstSideDone — it triggers once any recognizer has anything recognized for multi-side recognizers, which is the same as RecognizerResultState.StageValid.

Environmental changes

  • TypeScript has been upgraded to 5.x .
  • Packages are now built without regenerator runtime. TSconfig compile target is now ES2020.

UI improvements​

Device-to-device (D2D) feature - BETA​

  • The idea behind the device-to-device (D2D) feature is to provide extraction functionality when the initial device has technical limitations like no camera or no support for WebAssembly. Also, it can be used to direct users to use mobile instead of web cameras for a better scanning experience. Being optimized for conference calls, web cameras often struggle with a focus which causes the image of a document to have a high level of blur thus making it hard to read.

  • D2D can achieve these goals without the need to restart the existing process, such as form filling. When D2D is used, the scanning process is moved from a problematic device to another auxiliary device that has the necessary requirements or better camera quality. There, the scanning will take place, and the extracted results will be sent directly between the initial and auxiliary device browsers without sending images or result data to a Microblink server.

  • Please check out our D2D documentation to learn more about this fantastic feature.

BlinkID MultiSide image upload​

  • The UI component now supports image upload on both front and back sides, meaning that through our UI component, it is now possible to use the MultiSide recognizer as well.

New user instructions, help screens, that lead to successful scans​

  • Detailed instructions on how to scan identity documents, via an intro tutorial (onboarding) or floating-action-button (FAB) during scanning, leading to improved success rates in ID scanning and data extraction.
    • New properties introduced: allowHelpScreensFab, allowHelpScreensOnboarding, allowHelpScreensOnboardingPerpetuity and helpScreensTooltipPauseTimeout.

Camera selection toolbar​

  • We've introduced the default option of camera selection through a dropdown menu of all available device cameras.
    • If only one camera is available, the camera selection dropdown will not be displayed.
  • We've introduced icon/button for the option of mirroring the camera video feed.
  • Camera device names are now reported as "[Front/Back] facing camera [n]" on Android devices.

General​

  • We've improved the responsiveness of our user interface accross different browsers for users on mobile devices.
  • We've improved error exposure to console.
  • We've fixed minor internal reporting logic issue.

February 24, 2023

v6.0.1​

  • The SDK can now be used with the wasm-unsafe-eval content security policy.

Bugfixes​

  • We've fixed a regression in the recognizer runner that could cause subsequent scans to fail.

January 26, 2023

v6.0.0​

New features:​

Extracting ID data from Arabic and Cyrillic IDs​

  • When we say you can scan IDs across the globe, we really mean it. Our list of supported documents got richer now that we can scan IDs including Arabic and Cyrillic scripts. This fantastic new feature also covers multiscript IDs meaning that we extract data written in both Latin and Arabic data fields.

Better barcode scanning and data extraction​

  • We’ve improved scanning accuracy for all IDs that hold a PDF417 or other barcode types. This means that the error rate is now 20% lower, which brings even cleaner and more reliable data with every scan of an identity document.

What's new in the BlinkId(Combined) Recognizer?​

  • Renamed BlinkIdRecognier to BlinkIdSingleSideRecognizer
  • Renamed BlinkIdCombinedRecognizer to BlinkIdMultiSideRecognizer
  • We introduced new classes: StringResult, DateResult, and Date in order to support multiple alphabets. If a recognizer supports multiple alphabets, its result class (e.g., BlinkIdMultiSideRecognizer.Result) will return StringResult for results that previously returned String.
  • Added new result property of an AdditionalProcessingInfo type that provides information about missingMandatoryFields, invalidCharacterFields, and extraPresentFields
  • Unified DataMatchResult and DataMatchDetailedInfo into a single structure DataMatchResult (removed dataMatchDetailedInfo result member)
  • Added new result member cardOrientation to ImageAnalysisResult structure
  • More info about transitioning to BlinkID v6.0.0 can be found in Transition Guide

Added support for 50 new versions of already supported documents:​

  • Mexico - Aguascalientes - Driving license
  • Mexico - Baja California - Driving license
  • Mexico - Hidalgo - Driving license
  • USA - Delaware - Driving license
  • USA - Florida - ID card
  • USA - Hawaii - Driving license
  • USA - Kentucky - ID card
  • USA - Maryland - ID card
  • USA - Michigan - ID card
  • USA - Mississippi - Driving license
  • USA - Mississippi - ID card
  • USA - Missouri - ID card
  • USA - Ohio - ID card
  • USA - Oklahoma - ID card
  • USA - Rhode Island - Driving license

These documents are no longer BETA:​

  • Australia - New South Wales - ID card
  • Australia - South Australia - Proof of Age Card
  • Belgium - Minors ID card
  • Belgium - Passport
  • Canada - Tribal ID card
  • Canada - Weapon Permit
  • Canada - British Columbia - Minors Public Services Card
  • Ireland - Public Services Card
  • Israel - ID card
  • Ivory Coast - Driving License
  • Lebanon - ID card
  • Libya - Polycarbonate Passport
  • Mexico - Colima - Driving license
  • Mexico - Michoacan - Driving license
  • Mexico - Tamaulipas - Driving license
  • Mexico - Zacatecas - Driving license
  • Myanmar - Driving license
  • Panama - Temporary Residence Permit
  • Slovenia - Residence Permit
  • Trinidad and Tobago - Driving license
  • USA - Passport
  • USA - Maine - ID card

Added support for 2 new ID types in BETA:​

Latin America and the Caribbean​

  • Cuba - ID card
  • Cayman Islands - Drivers License

Already supported documents but now with option to enable extraction for new scripts​

Arabic - 5 ID types​

  • Egypt - ID card
  • Jordan - ID card
  • UAE - ID card
  • UAE - Passport
  • UAE - Resident ID

Cyrillic - 10 ID types​

  • Bosnia and Herzegovina - ID card
  • Bulgaria - Drivers License
  • Bulgaria - ID card
  • North Macedonia - Drivers License
  • North Macedonia - ID card
  • Serbia - ID card
  • Ukraine - Drivers License
  • Ukraine - ID card
  • Ukraine - Residence Permit
  • Ukraine - Temporary Residence Permit

Bugfixes​

  • We've fixed a problem with camera focus on iPhone devices that use iOS 16 or newer, most notably iPhone 14.

January 25, 2023

v5.20.1​

  • We've fixed a target endpoint for internal reporting logic.

5.20.0​

New feature:​

  • ML models with new architecture that result in further 8% decrease in error rate

Support for 8 new document types:​

Northern America​

  • USA - Polycarbonate Passport
  • USA - Nebraska - ID Card
  • USA - New York - ID Card
  • USA - Utah - ID Card

Latin America and the Caribbean​

  • Mexico - Polycarbonate Passport
  • Brazil - Sao Paolo - ID Card

Europe​

  • Austria - Residence Permit

Asia​

  • Philippines - ID Card

Back side support added:​

  • Australia - South Australia - Driving license

Added support for 29 new versions of already supported documents:​

  • Australia - Northern Territory - Proof of Age Card
  • Belgium - Minors ID Card
  • Belgium - Residence Permit
  • Bolivia - ID Card
  • Croatia - Residence Permit
  • Cyprus - ID Card
  • Czechia - ID card
  • Czechia - Residence Permit
  • Dominican Republic - Paper Passport
  • Greece - Residence Permit
  • Italy - Residence Permit
  • Ivory Coast - Driving license
  • Kuwait - Driving license
  • Mexico - Jalisco - Driving license
  • Mexico - Nuevo Leon - Driving license
  • Peru - ID Card
  • Poland - Driving license
  • Slovenia - ID Card
  • Sweden - ID Card
  • Sweden - Polycarbonate Passport
  • USA - Georgia - ID Card
  • USA - Iowa - ID Card
  • USA - Kansas - Driving license
  • USA - Maryland - ID Card
  • USA - Nebraska - ID Card
  • USA - New York - Driving license
  • USA - New York - ID Card
  • USA - Oklahoma - Driving license
  • Vietnam - ID Card

These documents are no longer BETA:​

  • Finland - Residence Permit
  • Guatemala - Driving license

Added support for 2 new ID types in BETA:​

  • Antigua and Barbuda - Driving license
  • Mexico - Professional ID Card

Changes to BlinkID(Combined) Recognizer​

  • ClassInfo:

    • Added to JSON serialization:
      • isoNumericCountryCode
      • isoAlpha2CountryCode
      • isoAlpha3CountryCode

  • BarcodeData:

    • JSON serialization update: stringData member is now in base64 format

  • Added new item to enums:

    • Region:
      • Sao Paulo, when scanning Brazilian Driving licenses

  • Fixed scanning for Argentina ID - there were confusions for Veteran ID, now we enabled successful extraction on Veteran ID as well

Environment changes​

  • We've updated environment to Node v16.3.0.

January 24, 2023

v5.19.3​

  • We've fixed a target endpoint for internal reporting logic.

5.19.2​

  • We've fixed a target endpoint for internal reporting logic.

5.19.1​

  • We've fixed a major problem with internal reporting logic.

5.19.0​

What's new in the BlinkID(Combined) Recognizer?

Support for atypical Vietnam passports​

  • Extract data from Vietnam Passports that have non-ICAO compliant MRZ fields. For example, when the filler arrow is facing the other way (>) instead of the standard way (<) ​

Data anonymization​

  • We've added the option to not extract the religion field on all supported Malaysian documents (MyKad, MyKas, MyKid, MyPR, MyTentera) ​

Bugfixes​

  • Resolved issues with RGB color overlay when extracting document image, which was present on some devices
  • We've fixed a bug with CSS ::part() pseudo-selector to enable safe CSS customization of nested elements like mb-camera-toolbar.

Optimizing camera usage​

  • We are now preventing aborting the scanning process when using the UI component until the camera is not being fully initialized due to potential issues with reusing the camera's resources.

August 1, 2022

v5.18.0​

New feature:​

  • Updated machine learning models resulting in a 41% reduced error rate.

Support for 16 new document types:​

Northern America​

  • USA - Passport Card
  • Usa - District of Columbia - ID Card
  • USA - Iowa - ID Card
  • USA - Tennessee - ID Card

Latin America and the Caribbean​

  • Cuba - Paper Passport
  • Dominican Republic - Paper Passport
  • Panama - Residence Permit (front onyl)
  • Peru - Paper Passport

Europe​

  • Cyprus - Paper Passport
  • Germany - Minors Passport
  • UK - Proof of Age Card (front onyl)
  • Ukraine - Residence Permit
  • Ukraine - Temporrary Residence Permit

Middle East and Africa​

  • Qatar - Paper Passport
  • UAE - Paper Passport

Oceania​

  • Australia - Northern Territory - Proof of Age Card

Back side support added:​

  • Austria - ID Card
  • Australia - South Australia - Driving license
  • Australia - Tasmania - Driving license
  • Canada - Quebec - Driving license
  • Mexico - Quintana Roo Solidaridad - Driving license
  • USA - Washington - Driving license

Added support for 26 new versions of already supported documents:​

  • Afghanistan - ID Card
  • Bahrain - ID Card
  • Hungary - Residence Permit
  • India - ID Card
  • Mexico - Tabasco - Driving license
  • New Zealand - Driving license (front only)
  • The Philippines - Professional ID (front only)
  • Slovakia - Residence Permit
  • South Africa - ID Card
  • Switzerland - Residence Permit
  • UK - Driving license
  • USA - Colorado - Driving license
  • USA - Idaho - Driving license
  • USA - Kansas - ID Card
  • USA - Kentucky - Driving license
  • USA - Maine - Driving license
  • USA - Massachusetts - ID Card
  • USA - Nebraska - Driving license
  • USA - New Hampshire - Driving license
  • USA - New Jersey - ID Card
  • USA - New Mexico - ID Card
  • USA - North Carolina - ID Card
  • USA - Utah - Driving license
  • USA - Vermont Driving license
  • USA - West Virginia - Driving license

These documents are no longer BETA:​

  • Algeria - Paper Passport
  • Slovakia - Residence Permit
  • USA - Mississippi - ID Card

Added support for 8 new ID types in BETA:​

  • Iceland - Paper Passport
  • South Africa - ID Card (front only)
  • Brazil - Consular Passport (beta)
  • Quintana Roo Cozumel - Driving license
  • Canada - Social Security Card (front only)
  • Canada - British Columbia - Minor Public Services Card
  • USA - Maine - ID Card
  • USA - North Dakota - ID Card

Changes to BlinkID(Combined) Recognizer​

  • Added new enums:
    • Region: QUINTANA_ROO_COZUMEL
    • Type: CONSULAR_PASSPORT, MINORS_PASSPORT, and MINORS_PUBLIC_SERVICES_CARD
  • We've added a support for two different WebAssembly build versions.
    • Standard and default build that has all the optimisations, but has considerably larger file size compared to lightweight version.
    • Lighter version of the WebAssembly bundle that doesn’t have all optimizations for reading of dense barcodes with low quality cameras.

July 12, 2022

v5.17.1​

  • We've fixed a problem that has caused the enormous size of WebAssembly bundles.

July 8, 2022

v5.17.0​

Changes to BlinkID(Combined) Recognizer​

  • We've introduced the expanded DataMatch functionality for the BlinkID with the new result member called dataMatchDetailedInfo
    • This result member will enable you to see for which field has been performed, or it did not, the DataMatch functionality. This is enabled for dateOfBirth, documentNumber and dateOfExpiry.
    • For example, if the date of expiry is scanned from the front and back side of the document and values do not match, this method will return DataMatchResult: Failed.
    • Result will be DataMatchResult: Success only if scanned values for all fields that are compared are the same. If data matching has not been performed, the result will be DataMatchResult: NotPerformed. This information is available for every of the three mentioned field values above.
  • We've fixed issues with scanning Argentina AlienID, where there were confusions with the regular ID. ClassInfo now correctly returns which ID type is present based on the barcode data.
  • [BREAKING CHANGE] Due to security reasons, we've added a mechanism to load worker script from an external location.
    • New property WasmSDKLoadSettings.workerLocation was added for this purpose and represents a path to the external worker script file.
    • If omitted, SDK will look for the worker script in the resources directory.

UI Improvements​

  • We've added property recognitionPauseTimeout to the UI component that defines scanning pause after the first side of a document has been scanned.
    • The purpose of this property is to give the end-user enough time to flip the document before scanning is resumed.
    • Default value is 3800 and represents time in milliseconds.
  • We've exposed property cameraExperienceStateDurations on the UI component that can be used to change the default durations of UI animations.

April 8, 2022

v5.16.0​

We've added new documents to our list of supported documents:

Europe​

  • Austria - ID Card (front only)
  • Germany - ID Card

Latin America and the Caribbean​

  • Brazil - ID Card (beta)
  • Colombia - ID Card (front only)
  • Ecuador - ID Card

Mexico​

  • Baja California Sur - Driving Licence (beta)
  • Ciudad De Mexico - Driving Licence (front only)
  • Colima - Driving Licence (front only, beta)
  • Michoacan - Driving Licence (beta)
  • Nayarit - Driving Licence (beta)
  • Quintana Roo Solidaridad - Driving Licence (front only)
  • Tlaxcala - Driving Licence
  • Veracruz - Driving Licence (beta)

Oceania​

  • Australia - Northern Territory (beta)

Asia​

  • Japan - My Number Card (front only)
  • Singapore - Resident ID

Northern America​

  • USA - Missouri - ID Card
  • USA - Nevada - Driving Licence
  • USA - New York City - ID Card
  • USA - Oklahoma - ID Card

Back side support added:​

  • Mexico - Chiapas - Driving License

No longer BETA:​

  • Mexico - Baja California - Driving Licence
  • Mexico - Chihuahua - Driving Licence
  • Mexico - Coahuila - Driving Licence
  • Mexico - Guanajuato - Driving Licence
  • Mexico - Mexico - Driving Licence

Changes to BlinkID(Combined) Recognizer​

  • Added the setting saveCameraFrames for saving camera frames with the default value being false.
    • New result members are also available here: frontCameraFrame, backCameraFrame, barcodeCameraFrame.
    • Memory consumption significantly increases if set to true.
  • We've added new result members when scanning Australian Driving Licences: vehicleClass, licenceType, effectiveDate and expiryDate.
    • Result member are displayed under the VehicleClassInfo field; we can also extract data from multiple rows when this vehicle class info data is present on the document (e.g. multiple expiry dates for different vehicle classes).
  • We've added new enum values:
    • Region: QUINTANA_ROO, QUINTANA_ROO_SOLIDARIDAD, TLAXCALA which are available when scanning Mexican Driving Licences.
    • Type: MY_NUMBER_CARD which is available when scanning Japanese My Number Card documents.
  • We've added new result member additionalOptionalAddressInformation which gives additional address information about the document owner.
    • This result member can be present when scanning the Pakistani ID Card for the field Country of Stay.

Changes to IDBarcodeRecognizer​

  • For barcodes in countries: Argentina, Colombia, Nigeria, Panama, and South Africa, we now also extract data from the field Sex when it's populated with the character "X".

Improvements​

  • We've added support for Brazil ID Card when the cardholder's face image is rotated for 90 degrees on the document.
    • We will return face image and document image + data from VIZ part present on the back side.
  • BlinkIdCombinedRecognizer can return the full frame from the front side if saveCameraFrames is set to true, whereas before it returned the full frame only for the back side.

March 20, 2022

v5.15.2​

  • We removed digitalSignature property and related recognizer options

February 7, 2022

v5.15.1​

  • We've updated Microblink logo and colors

December 23, 2021

v5.15.0​

We support the latest versions of these documents:

Europe​

  • Belgium - Driving License (front only)
  • Croatia - ID Card
  • France - ID Card
  • France - Residence Permit (beta)
  • Spain - ID Card
  • Switzerland - Residence Permit
  • UK - Residence Permit

Oceania​

  • Australia - Northern Territory - Driving License (front only, beta)

Middle East and Africa​

  • UAE - ID Card
  • UAE - Resident ID

Northern America​

  • Honduras - ID Card (beta)
  • USA - Colorado - ID Card
  • USA - Minnesota - Driving License
  • USA - Nevada - Driving License
  • USA - Oklahoma - Driving License
  • USA - Wyoming - Driving License

Changes to BlinkID(Combined) Recognizer​

  • No API changes

Improvements​

  • We now support DataMatch functionality on single side documents (Passports)
    • We added a special case to support DataMatch for UAE ID Card and Resident ID Card documents for the field personal_id_number
  • We can now extract additional_personal_id_number on Ecuador ID Card
  • We've made improvements for reading NRIC number on Malaysian documents that have an asterisk (*) character present
  • We've improved document detection and cropping of the document image

Changes to IDBarcodeRecognizer​

  • We've added document type ArgentinaAlienID and parser for ArgentinaAlienID2012BarcodeParser
  • We've added methods for programmatically starting camera and image scan when using the UI component.
    • It's possible to call startCameraScan() and startImageScan(File) methods on the custom web element.
  • We've standardized error structures returned from the WebAssembly library and the UI component.
  • We've completed support for part:: selector and added an example.
  • We've simplified integration of the UI component with Angular and React frameworks.

Bug fixes​

  • We've ensured that all SDK errors can be visible from fatalError and scanError events in the UI component.

November 17, 2021

v5.14.2​

  • We've expanded support for part:: selector by exposing all nested web components.
  • We've fixed styles regarding width and height for camera scanning UI to provide more flexibility to developers.

November 2, 2021

v5.14.1​

5.14.1​

  • We've added support for part:: selector to provide more flexibility when customizing built-in UI. #35

UI bug fixes​

  • We've fixed a bug where a user couldn't upload an image after the camera scan failed to start.
  • We've fixed a bug where the video feed wasn't released in the scenario where the UI component was removed from the DOM.
  • We've reverted style changes regarding width and height for camera scanning UI to provide more flexibility to developers.
  • We've improved memory management during the initialization of the UI component to avoid the creation of unnecessary web workers.

October 4, 2021

v5.14.0​

Back side support added:​

  • Thailand - ID Card

Improvements​

  • Extraction of father’s and mother’s names from Mexico Voter ID Card
  • The driver license unique card number is extracted as document_additional_number for Australian Driving Licenses, regions New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria and Western Australia
  • We've improved the accuracy of barcode scanning on identity documents

Changes to BlinkID(Combined) Recognizer​

  • We've added two new result fields - fathersName and mothersName both in BlinkID and BlinkIDCombined Recognizers, as well as in VIZ result

Changes to BarcodeRecognizer​

  • We’ve removed support for aztec and dataMatrix barcode formats

Changes to MRTDRecognizer​

  • We've added MRTD_TYPE_BORDER_CROSSING_CARD type to MRTD enum
  • We've added a camera management UI module for the selection of connected cameras
    • We've added VideoRecognizer.changeCameraDevice method that can be used to change the active camera device during the scanning session
  • We've improved accessibility of the UI component by changing background contrasts and increasing default font sizes

Bug fixes​

  • We've optimised memory usage of the SDK by fixing a problem where every refresh of the UI component would result in a new instance of web worker

August 13, 2021

v5.13.0​

New additions to our supported document list​

We’ve added 61 new documents:

Europe​

  • Austria - Paper Passport
  • Belarus - Paper Passport
  • Belgium - Paper Passport (beta)
  • Bulgaria - Paper Passport
  • Estonia - Paper Passport
  • France - Paper Passport (beta)
  • Georgia - Paper Passport (beta)
  • Germany - Paper Passport
  • Greece - Paper Passport
  • Hungary- Paper Passport
  • Italy - Paper Passport (beta)
  • Kosovo - Paper Passport
  • Moldova - Paper Passport (beta)
  • Poland - Paper Passport
  • Portugal - Paper Passport
  • Spain - Paper Passport
  • Switzerland - Paper Passport
  • UK - Paper Passport

Middle East and Africa​

  • Algeria - Paper Passport (beta)
  • Egypt - Paper Passport (beta)
  • Eswatini - Paper Passport
  • Ghana - Paper Passport
  • Iran - Paper Passport (beta)
  • Iraq - Paper Passport (beta)
  • Israel - Paper Passport (beta)
  • Jordan - Paper Passport (beta)
  • Kenya - Polycarbonate Passport
  • Libya - Polycarbonate Passport (beta)
  • Morocco - Paper Passport (beta)
  • Nigeria - Paper Passport
  • Nigeria - Polycarbonate Passport (beta)
  • Qatar - ID Card (front only, beta)
  • Saudi Arabia - Paper Passport
  • Syria - Paper Passport
  • Tanzania - ID Card (beta)
  • Tanzania - Voter ID (front only, beta)
  • Tunisia - Paper Passport
  • Turkey - Paper Passport
  • Zimbabwe - Paper Passport

Latin America and the Caribbean​

  • Argentina - Paper Passport
  • Brazil - Paper Passport (beta)
  • Guatemala - Paper Passport
  • Haiti - Paper Passport
  • Honduras - Paper Passport (beta)
  • Mexico - Paper Passport (beta)
  • Mexico - Nayarit - Driving Licence (beta)

Asia​

  • Bangladesh - Paper Passport
  • China - Paper Passport (beta)
  • India - Paper Passport
  • Indonesia - Paper Passport
  • Japan - Paper Passport
  • Nepal - Paper Passport
  • Pakistan - Paper Passport
  • Philippines - Paper Passport
  • South Korea - Paper Passport (beta)
  • Sri Lanka - Paper Passport
  • Uzbekistan - Paper Passport

Oceania​

  • Australia - Paper Passport

Northern America​

  • Canada - Paper Passport
  • Canada - Weapon Permit (front only, beta)
  • USA - Paper Passport (beta)

Back side support added:​

  • Greece - ID Card
  • Burkina Faso - ID Card
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo - Driving Licence
  • Mexico - Veracruz - Driving Licence
  • Canada - Citizenship Certificate

No longer BETA:​

  • Belarus - Driving Licence
  • UK - Polycarbonate Passport
  • Argentina - Alien ID
  • Bahamas - Driving Licence
  • Mexico - Durango - Driving Licence
  • Venezuela - ID Card
  • USA - Kansas - ID Card

Changes to BlinkID(Combined) Recognizer​

  • We’ve renamed the Swaziland country to Eswatini in results and ClassInfo structure
  • Improved result validation
    • FieldIdentificationFailed processing status is used to indicate if unexpected fields are present on the document. Those fields are then deleted from the result
  • We are filling out COUNTRY and REGION fields in ClassInfo, without the field TYPE of document, when using BarcodeID mode for scanning documents where the Front side is not supported, and back side results are extracted from AAMVA compliant barcodes
    • This applies only if ClassInfo isn’t already prepopulated in some other way and when you’re not in FullRecognition mode

Improvements​

  • We can now extract the date of birth from the document number on the South Korean identity card and from the personal identification number on the driving licence

Anonymization​

  • We’ve added anonymization support for new documents:
    • Document number on Germany paper bio-data page Passport
    • Document number on South Korea Identity Card
    • Personal identification number on South Korea driving licence
    • Personal identification number on South Korea paper bio-data page Passport
  • We've improved the performance of the SDK by adding support for WebAssembly SIMD.
    • This increases the scanning performance on compatible browsers up to 77% and up to 94% in cases when WebAssembly threads are also supported.
    • Keep in mind that this feature requires a compatible browser (Chrome 91 and Firefox 90 or newer versions). Only advanced and advanced-threads binaries are using SIMD. In case that the browser doesn't support this feature, basic binary will be used.
  • We've reduced the memory fragmentation during video processing, resulting in a smaller memory footprint.

June 29, 2021

v5.12.0​

New additions to our supported documents list​

We've added 15 new documents:

Europe​

  • North Macedonia - Polycarbonate Passport

Middle East and Africa​

  • Botswana - ID Card
  • Sudan - Polycarbonate Passport

Latin America & the Caribbean​

  • Mexico - Baja California Sur - Driving Licence (beta)
  • Mexico - Campeche - Driving Licence (beta)
  • Mexico - Colima - Driving Licence (beta)

Oceania​

  • Australia - Health Insurance Card (front only, beta)

Asia​

  • Azerbaijan - Polycarbonate Passport (beta)
  • Tajikistan - Polycarbonate Passport (beta)

Northern America​

  • Canada - Citizenship Certificate (front only, beta)
  • Canada - Ontario - Health Insurance Card (front only)
  • Canada - Quebec - Health Insurance Card (front only, beta)
  • USA - Military ID Card
  • USA - Rhode Island - ID Card
  • USA - South Carolina - ID Card

Back side support added:​

  • Ireland - Passport Card
  • Mexico - Puebla - Driving Licence
  • Singapore - S PASS

No longer BETA:​

  • Finland - Polycarbonate Passport
  • Ireland - Passport Card
  • Ireland - Polycarbonate Passport
  • Kosovo - Driving Licence
  • Latvia - Polycarbonate Alien Passport
  • Latvia - Polycarbonate Passport
  • Poland - Polycarbonate Passport
  • Cameroon - ID Card
  • Ghana - ID Card
  • Iraq - ID Card
  • Tanzania - Driving Licence
  • Turkey - Polycarbonate Passport
  • Uganda - Driving Licence
  • Bolivia - Minors ID
  • Chile - Driving Licence
  • Ecuador - Driving Licence
  • Haiti - Driving Licence
  • India - Karnataka - Driving Licence
  • India - Maharashtra - Driving Licence
  • Pakistan - Punjab - Driving Licence
  • USA - Global Entry Card
  • USA - New Mexico - ID Card
  • USA - Wisconsin - ID Card

Changes to BlinkID(Combined) Recognizer​

  • We've added the parameter maxAllowedMismatchesPerField to settings. When this is set to a non-zero value, DataMatch will pass as long as the number of mismatched characters doesn't exceed the specified value.
  • We've enabled the return of image and back-side data results, even when the State is Uncertain. Keep in mind that returned images, in this case, might be blurry or low quality.
    • This applies to all images: face image, full document image, and signature image.

Improvements​

  • We can now extract information from NRIC numbers on Malaysian documents that have the asterisk (*) character in it.
  • While using FullRecognitionMode for scanning unsupported Passports, we are now taking ClassInfo from MRZ
  • We are now correctly handling fully cropped vertical images
  • Fix for correct parsing of Bermuda Driving Licence AAMVA-compliant barcode dates
  • Fix for correct calculation of check digit for Saudi Arabia ID Card MRZ

Postprocess improvement​

  • We are splitting names and descriptors into two different results (e.g., Nom d’ usage, Epouse, Geb. etc.), where descriptors are in their separate field name_additional_info, for these documents:
    • France
      • ID Card
      • Residence Permit
    • Germany
      • ID Card
    • Luxembourg
      • ID Card
    • Netherlands
      • Driving Licence
      • Polycarbonate Passport

Sanitization of names​

  • We are removing title prefixes (e.g., Mrs., Mr., Ing., etc.) from full_name, first_name and last_name for these documents:
    • Austria
      • Driving Licence
      • ID Card
    • Czechia
      • Driving Licence
    • Germany
      • ID Card
    • Thailand
      • ID Card
    • UK
      • Driving Licence

Anonymization​

  • We've added anonymization support for new documents:
    • Document number on Germany Polycarbonate Passport
    • Document number on Hong Kong Polycarbonate Passport
    • Document number, personal ID number on Singapore Polycarbonate Passport

SDK changes​

  • We've added a mechanism to automatically delete an instance of worker script in case of unsuccessful SDK initialization.
    • New method WasmSDK.delete() was added for this purpose and is available on every instance of the SDK.
  • We've changed improper error handling in the VideoRecognizer class.
    • From now on, it's possible to catch all errors that happen during the video recognition.

May 6, 2021

v5.11.4​

  • Generated missing assets when UI component is used as NPM package

May 5, 2021

v5.11.3​

  • We’ve fixed a bug that would cause recognizerOptions to work incorrectly on still images

April 30, 2021

v5.11.2​

SDK changes​

  • We've exposed a couple of functions that are used by the SDK to determine which WebAssembly bundle to load and from which location
    • Function detectWasmType() returns the best possible WebAssembly bundle based on the features a browser supports.
    • Function wasmFolder( WasmType ) returns the name of the resources subfolder of the provided WebAssembly bundle type.
    • For more information on how to implement these functions, see WasmLoadUtils.ts file.

UI Improvements​

  • You can now set a camera feedback message to the user when BlinkID IDBarcode recognizer is used
    • Set showCameraFeedbackBarcodeMessage property to display a custom message.
    • Use translations property to translate a custom message.
  • Camera rectangle cursor is more responsive now when BlinkID IDBarcode recognizer is used.

Bugfixes​

  • Container width size on UI component for action label (Scan or choose from gallery) and action buttons (Device camera and From gallery) are now responsive on Safari.

April 20, 2021

v5.11.1​

  • We've fixed a broken rollup.config.js which resulted in an unusable UMD development bundle

April 19, 2021

v5.11.0​

Breaking changes​

  • We've changed the way how recognizer options are set up when using the UI component
    • You can now specify how a recognizer should behave by using the new recognizerOptions property.
    • To see the full list of available recognizer options, as well as examples on how to use them, check out the relevant source code.
  • We've removed property and attribute anonymization from the UI component since it can now be defined with the new recognizerOptions property

Newly supported identity documents:​

We’ve added 98 new documents:

Europe​

  • Albania - Driver Card (front only)
  • Albania - Professional Driver License (front only)
  • Belarus - Driver License (front only, beta)
  • Belgium - Minors ID (beta)
  • Czechia - Residence Permit
  • Finland - Alien ID
  • Finland - Residence Permit (beta)
  • Georgia - Driver License (front only)
  • Greece - Residence Permit
  • Ireland - Passport Card (beta)
  • Ireland - Public Services Card (beta)
  • Kosovo - Driver License (front only, beta)
  • Latvia - Alien ID
  • Luxembourg - ID Card
  • Moldova - ID Card (beta)
  • North Macedonia - Driver License (front only)
  • North Macedonia - ID Card
  • Poland - Passport (beta)
  • Slovenia - Residence Permit (beta)
  • Spain - Alien ID
  • UK - Passport (beta)

Middle East and Africa​

  • Algeria - Driver License
  • Burkina Faso - ID Card (front only)
  • Cameroon - ID Card (beta)
  • Democratic Republic Of The Congo - Driver License (front only, beta)
  • Egypt - Driver License (beta)
  • Ghana - ID Card (beta)
  • Iraq - ID Card (beta)
  • Ivory Coast - Driver License (front only, beta)
  • Ivory Coast - ID Card
  • Lebanon - ID Card (beta)
  • Morocco - Driver License
  • Mozambique - Driver License (front only, beta)
  • Oman - Driver License (beta)
  • Rwanda - ID Card (front only)
  • Senegal - ID Card
  • Tanzania - Driver License (front only, beta)
  • Tunisia - Driver License (front only)
  • Uganda - Driver License (front only, beta)

Latin America & the Caribbean​

  • Argentina - Alien ID (beta)
  • Bahamas - ID Card (front only, beta)
  • Bolivia - Minors ID (beta)
  • Jamaica - Driver License
  • Mexico - Residence Permit (beta)
  • Mexico - Chiapas - Driver License (front only)
  • Mexico - Coahuila - Driver License (beta)
  • Mexico - Durango - Driver License(front only, beta)
  • Mexico - Guerrero-cocula - Driver License (beta)
  • Mexico - Guerrero-juchitan - Driver License (beta)
  • Mexico - Guerrero-tepecoacuilco - Driver License (front only, beta)
  • Mexico - Guerrero-tlacoapa - Driver License (front only, beta)
  • Mexico - Hidalgo - Driver License
  • Mexico - Mexico - Driver License (beta)
  • Mexico - Morelos - Driver License (front only)
  • Mexico - Oaxaca - Driver License
  • Mexico - Puebla - Driver License (front only, beta)
  • Mexico - San Luis Potosi - Driver License (front only)
  • Mexico - Sinaloa - Driver License (front only, beta)
  • Mexico - Sonora - Driver License (beta)
  • Mexico - Tabasco - Driver License (beta)
  • Mexico - Yucatan - Driver License (beta)
  • Mexico - Zacatecas - Driver License (beta)
  • Panama - Temporary Residence Permit (beta)
  • Peru - Minors ID (beta)
  • Trinidad And Tobago - Driver License (front only, beta)
  • Trinidad And Tobago - ID Card

Oceania​

  • Australia - South Australia - Proof Of Age Card (front only, beta)

Asia​

  • Armenia - ID Card
  • Bangladesh - Driver License (beta)
  • Cambodia - Driver License (front only, beta)
  • India - Gujarat - Driving Licence (front only, beta)
  • India - Karnataka - Driving Licence (front only, beta)
  • India - Kerala - Driving Licence (beta)
  • India - Madhya Pradesh - Driving Licence (front only, beta)
  • India - Maharashtra - Driving Licence (front only, beta)
  • India - Punjab - Driving Licence (front only, beta)
  • India - Tamil Nadu - Driving Licence (beta)
  • Kyrgyzstan - ID Card
  • Malaysia - Mypolis (beta)
  • Malaysia - Refugee ID (front only)
  • Myanmar - Driver License (beta)
  • Pakistan - Punjab - Driving Licence (front only, beta)
  • Sri Lanka - Driving Licence (front only)
  • Thailand - Alien ID (front only)
  • Thailand - Driver License (beta)
  • Uzbekistan - Driver License (front only, beta)

Northern America​

  • Canada - Tribal ID (beta)
  • Canada - Nova Scotia - ID Card (beta)
  • Canada - Saskatchewan - ID Card (beta)
  • USA - Border Crossing Card (front only)
  • USA - Global Entry Card (beta)
  • USA - Nexus Card (beta)
  • USA - Veteran ID (front only)
  • USA - Work Permit
  • USA - Mississippi - ID Card (beta)
  • USA - Montana - ID Card
  • USA - New Mexico - ID Card (beta)
  • USA - Wisconsin - ID Card (beta)

Back side support added:​

  • Hungary - Residence Permit
  • Luxembourg - Residence Permit (no longer beta)
  • Mauritius - ID Card
  • Colombia - Alien ID (no longer beta)
  • Mexico - Baja California - Driver License
  • Mexico - Chihuahua - Driver License
  • Mexico - Guanajuato - Driver License
  • Mexico - Michoacan - Driver License
  • Malaysia - MyKid
  • Malaysia - MyPR

No longer beta:​

  • Albania - Passport
  • Malta - Residence Permit
  • Switzerland - Residence Permit
  • Bolivia - Driver License
  • Chile - Passport
  • El Salvador - ID Card
  • Peru - ID Card
  • Singapore - S Pass (front only)

Changes to the BlinkId(Combined)Recognizer​

  • You can now retrieve an image of the document owner along with cropped images of the document itself whenever you’re scanning an AAMVA-compliant ID:
    • Using BarcodeId as a RecognitionMode lets you scan US driver licenses and IDs that BlinkID can’t read from the Visual Inspection Zone (VIZ) alone. Use it to extract:
      • A face image from the front side
      • Barcode data from the back side
      • Cropped document images of both sides
    • You can disable this RecognitionMode by setting enableBarcodeId to false in the RecognitionModeFilter.
  • We've improved data extraction through the MRZ:
    • We now allow standard M/F values for gender on Mexican documents (along with localized H/M values)
  • We're now converting dates to the Gregorian calendar for:
    • Taiwan documents with Republic of China (ROC) calendar dates
    • Saudi documents with Islamic calendar dates
  • We're now auto-filling all ‘partial’ dates found on identity documents (showing year or month-year only):
    • Date of issue will be converted to the first day of the (first) month
      • E.g. '1999' will be converted to '01.01.1999.'
      • E.g. '03.1999.' will be converted to '01.03.1999.'
    • Date of expiry will be converted to the last day of the (last) month
      • E.g. '1999' will be converted to '31.12.1999.'
      • E.g. '03.1999.' will be converted to '31.03.1999.'

Changes to the UI component​

  • You can now scan identity documents with barcodes, for example US driver’s licenses, with BlinkId(Combined)Recognizer
    • A user will now receive a feedback message whenever barcode scanning is taking place, with instructions to point the camera closer to the barcode, if needs be.
    • This change should result in better results when scanning the aforementioned documents.

Performance improvements​

  • We've added three different flavors of WebAssembly builds to the SDK, to provide better performance across all browsers
    • Unless defined otherwise, the SDK will load the best possible bundle during initialization:
      • Basic Same as the existing WebAssembly build, most compatible, but least performant.
      • Advanced WebAssembly build that provides better performance but requires a browser with advanced features.
      • AdvancedWithThreads Most performant WebAssembly build which requires a proper setup of COOP and COEP headers on the server-side.
    • For more information about different WebAssembly builds and how to use them properly, check out the relevant section in our official documentation

Bugfixes​

  • We fixed the initialization problem that prevented the SDK from loading on iOS 13 and older versions

March 31, 2021

v5.10.2​

  • Constructor of VideoRecognizer class is now public

March 12, 2021

v5.10.1​

  • It's now possible to define anonymization mode when using UI component
    • The default value of anonymization mode is AnonymizationMode.FullResults which means certain documents are anonymized by default.
    • To change default value set attribute/property anonymization to one of supported values None, ImageOnly, ResultFieldsOnly or FullResult.

February 19, 2021

v5.10.0​

Newly supported identity documents

  • Saudi Arabia - DL (front)
  • Saudi Arabia - Resident ID (front)

Changes to the BlinkId(Combined)Recognizer:​

  • We're now able to extract the additional address on Hungary Address Cards
  • We've improved data extraction through the MRZ:
    • We now return the document type through ClassInfo, regardless of the RecognitionMode you're using (MrzId, MrzPassport or MrzVisa).
    • This means you can now use ClassFilter to filter these documents by their type.
    • We now return the document number on Nigeria IDs complete with its check digit.
    • We now support Italy Residence Permits with a CR document code.
  • We've extended the ClassInfo structure with helper methods so you can filter documents by country more easily:
    • Use countryName, isoNumericCountryCode, isoAlpha2CountryCode and isoAlpha3CountryCode to get the full country names or their representative codes, as defined by ISO.
  • We've extended the BarcodeResult structure with extendedElements
    • You can find all data from AAMVA-compliant barcodes under their respective BarcodeElementKey in the BarcodeElements structure.
    • For a full list of keys please see here.
  • We've added another ProcessingStatus called AwaitingOtherSide
    • This status is triggered once BlinkID has finished with the first side of a document and expects the other side, too.
  • We're now able to extract the date of birth from the CURP field on Mexico Voter IDs
  • We've added a new recognition mode for recognizing still images of documents that have already been cropped:
    • Set the scanCroppedDocumentImage to true when you're feeding BlinkID images of documents that have already been cropped and don't require detection.
    • Keep in mind that this setting won't work on document images that haven't been properly cropped.

Changes to the IdBarcodeRecognizer:​

  • We've extended the results with extendedElements
    • You can find all data from AAMVA-compliant barcodes under their respective BarcodeElementKey in the BarcodeElements structure.
    • For a full list of keys please see here.

Deprecated recognizers:​

  • We've deprecated UsdlRecognizer. Please use IdBarcodeRecognizer instead

Changes to the UI component:​

  • We’ve added new ways you can configure the UI component to better fit the way your app looks and behaves.

Changes to RecognizerRunner class:​

  • Invoking RecognizerRunner.processImage on multiple still images will no longer implicitly reset the recognizer chain.
    • This means you can now use BlinkIdCombinedRecognizer to scan both sides of a document by giving it two still images.
    • If you still need to reset the recognizers, you can do that manually by invoking the RecognizerRunner.resetRecognizers function.
    • A complete example of how to use BlinkIdCombinedRecognizer with still images has been added here.

December 19, 2020

v5.9.1​

  • We've fixed NPM package which had obsolete UI component

December 18, 2020

v5.9.0​

New additions to our supported documents list​

  • 53 documents added:

    • ALBANIA - DL (front)
    • BELGIUM - RESIDENCE PERMIT (front, back)
    • BOLIVIA - ID (front, back)
    • BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - PASSPORT
    • CAMBODIA - PASSPORT
    • CANADA - RESIDENCE PERMIT (front, back)
    • CANADA - MANITOBA - ID (front)
    • CANADA - ONTARIO - HEALTH INSURANCE CARD (front)
    • CHILE - ALIEN ID (front, back)
    • CHINA - ID (front, back)
    • COLOMBIA - MINORS ID (front, back)
    • CYPRUS - RESIDENCE PERMIT (front, back)
    • CZECHIA - PASSPORT
    • GREECE - ID (front)
    • HAITI - ID (front, back)
    • ITALY - RESIDENCE PERMIT (front, back)
    • LATVIA - DL (front)
    • LATVIA - PASSPORT
    • LITHUANIA - PASSPORT
    • LUXEMBOURG - DL (front)
    • MONTENEGRO - DL (front)
    • MONTENEGRO - ID (front, back)
    • MONTENEGRO - PASSPORT
    • NETHERLANDS - RESIDENCE PERMIT (front, back)
    • NICARAGUA - ID (front, back)
    • NIGERIA - ID (front, back)
    • NORWAY - RESIDENCE PERMIT (front, back)
    • OMAN - RESIDENT ID (front, back)
    • PARAGUAY - DL (front, back)
    • PERU - DL (front, back)
    • PHILIPPINES - SOCIAL SECURITY CARD (front)
    • ROMANIA - PASSPORT
    • RUSSIA - PASSPORT
    • SERBIA - PASSPORT
    • SLOVAKIA - PASSPORT
    • SLOVENIA - PASSPORT
    • SOUTH KOREA - DL (front)
    • SPAIN - RESIDENCE PERMIT (front, back)
    • SWEDEN - RESIDENCE PERMIT (front, back)
    • THAILAND - PASSPORT
    • UKRAINE - DL (front)
    • UKRAINE - PASSPORT
    • USA - ARKANSAS - ID (front, back)
    • USA - CONNECTICUT - ID (front, back)
    • USA - GREEN CARD (front, back)
    • USA - MARYLAND - ID (front, back)
    • USA - MINNESOTA - ID (front, back)
    • USA - NEVADA - ID (front, back)
    • USA - NEW YORK CITY - ID (front, back)
    • USA - TEXAS - WEAPON PERMIT (front)
    • USA - VIRGINIA - ID (front, back)
    • VENEZUELA - DL (front)
    • VENEZUELA - PASSPORT

  • Beta support added for 46 documents:

    • ALBANIA - PASSPORT
    • BAHAMAS - DL (front)
    • BERMUDA - DL (front)
    • BOLIVIA - DL (front)
    • CHILE - DL (front)
    • COLOMBIA - ALIEN ID (front)
    • DENMARK - RESIDENCE PERMIT (front, back)
    • DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - DL (front, back)
    • ECUADOR - DL (front)
    • EL SALVADOR - DL (front, back)
    • ESTONIA - RESIDENCE PERMIT (front, back)
    • GUATEMALA - DL (front, back)
    • HAITI - DL (front)
    • HONDURAS - DL (front, back)
    • HONDURAS - ID (front, back)
    • HUNGARY - ADDRESS CARD (front, back)
    • HUNGARY - RESIDENCE PERMIT (front)
    • ICELAND - DL (front)
    • ISRAEL - ID (front, back)
    • JAPAN - DL (front)
    • JORDAN - DL (front)
    • LATVIA - ALIEN PASSPORT
    • LATVIA - RESIDENCE PERMIT (front, back)
    • LUXEMBOURG - RESIDENCE PERMIT (front)
    • MALTA - RESIDENCE PERMIT (front, back)
    • MEXICO - BAJA CALIFORNIA - DL (front)
    • MEXICO - CHIHUAHUA - DL (front)
    • MEXICO - CIUDAD DE MEXICO - DL (front)
    • MEXICO - PROFESSIONAL DL (front)
    • MEXICO - GUANAJUATO - DL (front)
    • MEXICO - MICHOACAN - DL (front)
    • MEXICO - TAMAULIPAS - DL (front, back)
    • MEXICO - VERACRUZ - DL (front, back)
    • PHILIPPINES - TAX ID (front)
    • PHILIPPINES - VOTER ID (front)
    • POLAND - RESIDENCE PERMIT (front, back)
    • PORTUGAL - RESIDENCE PERMIT (front, back)
    • PUERTO RICO - VOTER ID (front)
    • SLOVAKIA - RESIDENCE PERMIT (front, back)
    • SOUTH KOREA - ID (front)
    • SWITZERLAND - RESIDENCE PERMIT (front, back)
    • TAIWAN - TEMPORARY RESIDENCE PERMIT (front)
    • TURKEY - RESIDENCE PERMIT (front)
    • USA - KANSAS - ID (front, back)
    • VENEZUELA - ID (front)
    • VIETNAM - DL (front)

  • Added back side support for 7 documents:

    • ARGENTINA - ID
    • ECUADOR - ID
    • FINLAND - ID
    • NIGERIA - DL
    • QATAR - RESIDENCE PERMIT
    • URUGUAY - ID
    • USA - NEW YORK - DL

  • 9 documents are no longer beta:

    • BRAZIL - DL
    • CANADA - ALBERTA - ID
    • MALAYSIA - MyKAS
    • MEXICO - NUEVO LEON - DL
    • PANAMA - DL
    • PORTUGAL - DL
    • SAUDI ARABIA - ID
    • SRI LANKA - ID
    • USA - IDAHO - ID

New features and updates to the BlinkId(Combined)Recognizer​

  • We’re now able to read partial MRZ formats (2.5 lines), like the ones found on Switzerland and Liechtenstein DLs.
  • We’ve added **documentOptionalAdditionalNumber** to the main part of the result, as well as front and back side VIZ results.
  • We’ve expanded the set of possible recognizer states with **StageValid**. This state fixes BlinkIDCombinedRecognizer timeout issues, and enables better control of the Combined scanning pipeline. It activates when the first side of a document has been successfully scanned and scanning of the second side is required.

Camera management updates​

  • We've enabled camera image flipping
    • Method flipCamera has been added to VideoRecognizer.
    • You can now let your users mirror the camera image vertically.
    • By default, the UI component will display a flip icon in the top left corner once the camera is live.
  • We've improved camera management on devices with multiple cameras
    • Method createVideoRecognizerFromCameraStream has been extended in VideoRecognizer class.
    • Attribute [camera-id] has been added to the UI component so that your users can preselect their desired camera.

Fixes​

  • We’ve fixed an uncommon bug where you’d get incomplete results upon scanning of the MRZ with the allowUnparsed setting enabled.
  • We've fixed a problem where the UI component would interfere with navigation strategy in SPA frameworks.
    • Value of the href attribute in button elements has been changed to javascript:void(0).

October 12, 2020

v5.8.1​

  • Fixed NPM package to include UI component.

October 12, 2020

v5.8.0​

New additions to our supported documents list​

Plastic page passports​

We added support for scanning the visual inspection zone - VIZ includes everything except MRZ or barcode. Keep in mind that BlinkID scans and extracts data only from the VIZ that is on the first plastic page found in the passport list below:

  • Chile Passport (BETA)
  • Colombia Passport
  • Croatia Passport
  • Denmark Passport
  • Finland Passport (BETA)
  • Germany Passport
  • Hong Kong Passport (BETA)
  • Ireland Passport (BETA)
  • Malaysia Passport
  • Netherlands Passport
  • New Zealand Passport
  • Norway Passport
  • Singapore Passport
  • South Africa Passport
  • Sweden Passport
  • Turkey Passport (BETA) ​

Vertical US documents​

  • California ID
  • Illinois ID
  • New York ID
  • North Carolina ID
  • Texas ID ​

Other documents​

  • Canada Newfoundland and Labrador DL
  • Croatia Residence Permit (BETA)
  • Guatemala Consular ID
  • Malaysia MyKAS (BETA)
  • Mexico Jalisco DL / front side only
  • Mexico Nuevo Leon DL (BETA)
  • Peru ID (BETA)
  • Singapore S Pass (BETA)
  • Uruguay ID / front side only
  • USA Missouri ID
  • USA Texas ID

European DLs with a single line MRZ​

BlinkID extracts data from driver’s licenses that contain single line MRZ:

  • Croatia DL
  • Estonia DL
  • France DL
  • Ireland DL
  • Netherlands DL
  • Slovakia DL

Back side supported on:​

  • Azerbaijan ID
  • Singapore DL
  • Singapore Employment Pass

No longer BETA​

  • Slovakia DL

New features and updates in BlinkID(Combined)Recognizer​

  • We added signatureImage to the result. Extract signature image from the documents below:

    • Australia Victoria DL
    • Austria ID
    • Austria DL
    • Brunei Military ID
    • Colombia ID
    • Croatia ID (on 2013 and 2015 versions)
    • Cyprus ID
    • Czechia ID (on the 2012 version)
    • Germany ID (2010 version)
    • Germany DL (2013 version)
    • Indonesia ID
    • Ireland DL
    • Italy DL
    • Mexico Voter ID
    • New Zealand DL
    • Slovenia ID
    • Spain DL
    • Sweden DL
    • Switzerland ID
    • UAE ID
    • UAE Resident ID

  • We enabled extraction of the date of birth from the NRIC from Malaysian documents:

    • MyKad
    • MyKas
    • MyKid
    • MyPR
    • MyTentera

  • We added anonymization support for:

    • MRZ (OPT2 containing the ID number) on China Mainland Travel Permit Hong Kong
    • MRZ (Document number) on Germany Alien Passport
    • Document number, MRZ (Document number) on Germany ID
    • MRZ (Document number) on Germany Minors Passport
    • MRZ (Document number) on Germany Passport
    • Document number on Hong Kong ID
    • MRZ (Document number, OPT1 containing the passport or ID number) on Hong Kong Passport
    • Personal ID number on Netherlands DL
    • Personal ID number, MRZ (OPT1 containing the BSN) on Netherlands ID
    • MRZ (OPT1 containing the BSN) on Netherlands Passport
    • Document number on Singapore DL
    • Personal ID number on Singapore Employment Pass
    • Document number on Singapore FIN Card
    • Document number on Singapore ID
    • MRZ (Document number, OPT1 containing the NRIC) on Singapore Passport
    • Document number on Singapore Resident ID
    • Document number on Singapore S Pass
    • Personal ID number on Singapore Work Permit
    • MRZ (OPT1 containing the resident registration number) on South Korea Diplomatic Passport
    • MRZ (OPT1 containing the resident registration number) on South Korea Passport
    • MRZ (OPT1 containing the resident registration number) on South Korea Residence Passport
    • MRZ (OPT1 containing the resident registration number) on South Korea Service Passport
    • MRZ (OPT1 containing the resident registration number) on South Korea Temporary Passport

  • We improved MRZ data extraction on:

    • Russia Passport

  • Added additional recognizer options:

    • BarcodeScanningStartedCallback callback that is invoked when barcode recognition is started.
    • ClassifierCallback callback that is invoked when document classification is completed.
    • allowedDocumentClasses property which indicates whether the given document is supported or not.

  • Added support for filtering only specific document classes.

UI component​

  • We added a UI component in the format of a custom web element to use BlinkID on your web in an effortless way.
  • Check out the README file for instructions on how to use UI component, or check the ui directory for complete source code.

Other features and updates​

  • We added the field middleName to BlinkID(Combined)Recognizer, IDBarcodeRecognizer and USDL(Combined)Recognizer results. This field is extracted from AAMVA standard compliant barcodes, whenever available.

Minor API changes​

  • We removed workerLocation property from WasmSDKLoadSettings.
    • Web worker is now inlined into the source code, which simplifies the SDK deployment and usage.
    • Property engineLocation in WasmSDKLoadSettings must be an absolute path.
    • Removed useWebWorker property from WasmSDKLoadSettings, since web worker is now always used as it provides much better user experience and does not block the UI browser thread.

Fixes​

  • We improved the data match logic for Guatemala Consular ID in BlinkID(Combined)Recognizer.
  • We fixed the initialization promise chain so that you can handle all initialization errors with a single error handler (Issue #13).

August 4, 2020

v5.7.0​

New features:​

  • IDBarcodeRecognizer now returns:
    • Street, postal code, city and jurisdiction.
  • In BlinkIDRecognizer and BlinkIDCombinedRecognizer, we added:
    • Support for US driver licenses with vertical orientations:
      • Alabama
      • Arizona
      • California
      • Colorado
      • Connecticut
      • Georgia
      • Illinois
      • Iowa
      • Kansas
      • Kentucky
      • Maryland
      • Massachusetts
      • Minnesota
      • Missouri
      • New Jersey
      • Ohio
      • Pennsylvania
      • South Carolina
      • Tennessee
      • Texas
      • Utah
      • Washington
      • Wisconsin
    • Support for new document types:
      • Croatia Health Insurance Card / front side / BETA
      • Ecuador ID / front side
      • El Salvador ID / BETA
      • Sri Lanka ID / BETA
    • Driver licenses no longer in BETA:
      • Canada Nova Scotia
      • Canada Yukon
      • Norway
    • Back side support:
      • Kenya ID
    • We added support for new MRZ formats on:
      • Guatemala ID
      • Kenya ID
      • Mexico consular ID
      • Northern Cyprus ID
      • Chinese Mainland Travel Permits (Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan)
  • Added result anonymization. With this option enabled, results are not returned for protected fields on documents listed here. The full document image will also have this data blacked out.
    • Protected fields are:
      • Document number on Hong Kong ID
      • MRZ on Hong Kong passports and Chinese mainland travel permits for Hong Kong
      • Personal ID number on Netherlands driver licence
      • Personal ID number and MRZ on Netherlands ID
      • MRZ on Netherlands passports
      • Document number on Singapore driver license, ID, Fin Card, Resident ID
      • Personal ID number on Singapore Employment Pass
      • Document number and personal ID number on Singapore Work Permit
      • MRZ on Singapore passports
    • By using setAnonymizationMode method, you can choose the AnonymizationMode: ImageOnly, ResultFieldsOnly, FullResult or None.
    • FullResult anonymization (both images and data) is set by default.

Improvements to existing features:​

  • We made changes to the result structure of BlinkIdCombinedRecognizer and BlinkIdRecognizer:
    • Barcode data is now encapsulated in its own result structure: BarcodeResult.
    • Data from all OCR-ed fields, without MRZ data, is now encapsulated in a VIZResult structure, representing the "Visual Inspection Zone" data. In BlinkIdCombinedRecognizer, front side data is available in its own structure (frontVizResult), back side data in its own (backVizResult), so you can now access data from each side separately.
    • The main part of the result, outside these structures, is filled according to these rules:
      • The document number is filled with MRZ data, if present.
      • The remaining data is then filled from the barcode.
      • The remaining data is filled from back side visual inspection zone (OCR data outside of MRZ).
      • The remaining data is filled from the front side visual inspection zone.
      • The remaining data is filled from the MRZ.
  • Members colorStatus and moireStatus can now be found in the result's imageAnalysisResult (frontImageAnalysisResult and backImageAnalysisResult in BlinkIDCombinedRecognizer).
  • We added blur detection status to imageAnalysisResult.
    • We extended ImageAnalysisResult with information on whether the document contains a photo, MRZ and/or barcode.
      • We renamed DocumentImageMoireStatus to ImageAnalysisDetectionStatus so it can be reused for other status information.
    • We added a RecognitionModeFilter setting. This makes it possible to control for which group of documents (MrzId, MrzVisa, MrzPassport, PhotoId, FullRecognition) recognition is enabled or disabled.
    • We added a RecognitionMode result member detailing which of the aforementioned recognition modes was used to obtain the result.
    • We added a fallback method that extracts ‘sex’ and ‘nationality’ fields from the MRZ in case they aren’t present in the VIZ or the barcode. Previously, only ‘dates’, ‘names’ and ‘document numbers’ had the fallback method.
    • Unsuccessfully parsed dates now preserve original string instead of returning empty string.

Bug fixes:​

  • We fixed US driver's license address extraction (Oregon, Mississippi, Rhode Island).
  • Added ProcessingStatus enumeration detailing why the result state was empty or uncertain.
  • Improved barcode error detection and correction.
  • Tweaked document detection feedback thresholds (that let the user know when the document is too close or too far away). This allows for a more natural scanning experience of passports in landscape mode, as the document can now be closer to the camera.

July 29, 2020

v5.5.1​

  • Removed alert() from VideoRecognizer and added allowManualVideoPlayout to constructor of VideoRecognizer class
  • Added locateFile method to MicroblinkSDK to fix problem when SDK is not using web worker
  • File package.json
    • Added field engines to explicitly specify Node version which was used during development
    • Fixed typo in repository field so NPM package can be used with yarn, closes #5
  • Documentation
    • Added more information and renamed section "Optimal deployment of your web app" to "Deployment guidelines"
    • Added links to Codepen examples and official demo app

July 18, 2020

v5.5.0​

  • Change of available recognizers
    • Removed MRTDRecognizer
    • Added BlinkIdGenericRecognizer and BlinkIdCombinedRecoginzer, with list of supported documents available in docs/BlinkIdRecognizer.md
  • Standardization of NPM package
    • NPM package can be used in environments with module bundlers
    • Added ES and UMD bundles for the SDK
    • Types are now exposed and accessible in standard manner for NPM environment
    • Extended package.json with project information and scripts for building and publishing
    • Added Rollup build system to provide developers with infrastructure for easier customization of SDK
  • Extension of examples
    • Examples now cover more functionalities of the SDK
    • Provided examples for integration in TS, ES and UMD environment
  • Configuration options for WASM engine and WebWorker locations
    • Configurations engineLocation and workerLocation are defined in the WasmSDKLoadSettings class
  • Improved stability and readability of SDK TypeScript source code
    • Added ESLint for automatic check of unsecure language constructs
    • Added Babel for safe transpiling to ES6 and better browser support

June 1, 2020

v1.0.0-beta.1​

  • decreased WASM binary size from 3.8 MB to 2.5 MB
  • fixed vulnerability in license check
  • added support for disabling hello message after license key gets validated
    • by default this is still enabled, to disable it, set allowHelloMessage property in WasmSDKLoadSettings to false
  • updates to IdBarcodeRecognizer:
    • added endorsements, restrictions and vehicleClass fields to its result
      • those fields are available only when scanning barcode from driver license
    • added support for returning raw barcode data in case data parsing fails
      • this requires a permission within a license key
    • changed the behaviour of firstName field:
      • now it contains both first name, middle name and name suffix

April 23, 2020

v1.0.0-beta.0​

  • initial beta release of the BlinkID In-browser SDK
  • supported recognizers:
    • ID Barcode recognizer for scanning barcodes from various ID documents
    • MRTD recognizer for scanning Machine Readable Zone (MRZ) from Machine Readable Travel Documents (MRTDs), such as IDs and passports
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